From the Publisher:
Short novels by John dickson Carr, Edward D. Hoch, Bill Pronzini and Clayton Rawson.
John Dickson Carr: "The Third Bullet"
A murder in a completely closed room.
Edward D. Hoch: "Day of the Wizard"
The inscrubable Simon Ark solves the mysery of the wrecked plane in the desert and its strange cargo.
Bill Pronzini: "Booktaker"
The Nameless Detective must find out how valuable books and maps are being stolen from an antiquarian bookshop with a faultless alarm system.
Clayton Rawson: "From Another World"
Two people are found apparently murdered in a sealed room and Merlini, the famous magician, must find out how and why the crimes were committed.
Bill Pronzini and Martin H. Greenberg (ed.): Locked Room Puzzles. Academy Chicago Publishers, ISBN: 0897332253 (October, 1986), 225 p., $11.00
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