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A review by mike_brough
Miraculous Mysteries: Locked-Room Murders and Impossible Crimes by Martin Edwards
3.0
A mixed collection of locked-room and other impossible mysteries from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction.
Most of them left little impression on me - I've looked back at the contents list and can't recall the story-lines of most - but a few are well-written diversions, including The Case of the Tragedies in the Greek Room by Sax Romer and Too Clever by Half by GDH & Margaret Cole, while the last story in the book, by Margery Allingham, wittily blows a hole through the conventions of the genre.
Most of them left little impression on me - I've looked back at the contents list and can't recall the story-lines of most - but a few are well-written diversions, including The Case of the Tragedies in the Greek Room by Sax Romer and Too Clever by Half by GDH & Margaret Cole, while the last story in the book, by Margery Allingham, wittily blows a hole through the conventions of the genre.