Here are fourteen impossible crimes from the American masters of the form. Locked-room mysteries have baffled and delighted readers for generations. They always begin with a seemingly impossible crime - a body found inside a windowless room that's been locked from the inside, for example - and then end with an ingenious and satisfying solution. This unique collection features fourteen of the finest locked-room mysteries from some of the best writers in the genre, including household names like John Dickson-Carr, Ellery Queen, Clayton Rawson, Stuart Palmer, Frederic Brown and Cornell Woolrich.