More Things Impossible — Edward D. Hoch

Dr. Sam Hawthorne, a New England country doctor in the first half of the twentieth century, was constantly faced by murders in locked rooms, impossible disappearances, and other so-called miracle crimes. More Things Impossible contains fifteen of Dr. Sam s extraordinary cases solved between 1927 and 1931, including impossible murder in a house that whispers; poisoning by a gargoyle on the courthouse roof; the case of the Devil in the windmill; the houseboat that resembles the Mary Celeste; the affair of the vanishing Gypsies; stabbing in the locked cockpit of a plane in midair; a ghostly pirate in a lighthouse; ad eight other ingenious riddles.

Edward D. Hoch is a legend of ingenuity in the world of mystery writing. Author of more than 800 short stories, winner of the Edgar Award, former President of the Mystery Writers of America, and contributor to every issue of Ellery Queen s Mystery Magazine since 1973, Hoch is one of the great mystery writers of our time. As John Dickson Carr remarked, Satan himself would be proud of his ingenuity. And Crippen & Landru is proud to be Edward D. Hoch s publisher.

The publisher: Founded in 1994 as the only publishing house to specialize in mystery short-story collections, Crippen & Landru has been described as a monument in the making (Alfred Hitchcock s Mystery Magazine) ,the best edited, most attractively packaged line of mystery books introduced in this decade (Mystery Scene),the specialty publisher with the most star-studded list (Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine), and even God bless Crippen & Landru (The Strand).