The MAGICIAN's LEGACY - Peter Sharp Legal Mystery #7

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There are many types of mysteries, but one group stands out over all the others: those involving a murder in or escape from a completely Locked Roo... (More) There are many types of mysteries, but one group stands out over all the others: those involving a murder in or escape from a completely Locked Room, where the authorities break in only to discover the victim, and the murderer has miraculously managed to escape.

Over the years, every mystery writer worth his salt has tried to come up with one that tops all the others: the secret compartments, doors locked from the inside, hidden tunnels, confused timelines, etc. It’s all been tried over and over.

Jacques Futrelle set the standard with his “Problem in Cell 13,” and John Dickson Carr raised it a bit in his “The Hollow Man,” but there hasn’t been a really fine stumper since then… until now.

Gene Grossman seems to have created a locked room mystery to end all locked room mysteries: not only is the room in this story locked – it is a steel security room from which entry or escape is physically impossible – but in this case, someone accomplishes the impossible.

As an extra added bonus, the publisher had added Edgar Alan Poe’s “The Gold Bug,” to the end of this book. It is one of this country’s finest ‘detective stories.’

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