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When we think of "locked room mysteries" we think of John Dickson Carr and his imitators, but back in 1941 Britain's Rupert Penny penned one of the best and most satisfying impossible crimes ever crafted-SEALED ROOM MURDER. Fans of the Policeman mys...
In Policeman in Armour, Rupert Penny once again guides you through the evidence up to a certain point, then turns on you and says: "Now you ought to know who murdered the man, and how, and why." But do you know Test your brains and see. You will fin...
Inspector Beale has seen many brutal crimes in his career, but this one takes the cake. The body of a young woman is seen, then it disappears, then it pops up again, only this time the head, and lower arms and legs have been cut off and are missing. ...
The Lucky Policeman, written in 1938, involves an English private country asylum from which a patient has disappeared, a series of bloody murders in the forest, and an odd array of evidence which suggests a madman is committing the crimes. But is all...
PUZZLES WITHIN PUZZLES The Locked Room, Acrostic, Train Schedule World of Rupert Penny. Between 1937 and 1941 British writer Ernest Basil Charles Thornett wrote several puzzle-oriented mysteries that until now have only been available in the UK. Usin...