The Perfect Crime The Big Bow Mystery Detective Club Crime Classics

Author : Israel Zangwill
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0008137293
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Perfect Crime: The Big Bow Mystery (Detective Club Crime Classics) written by Israel Zangwill and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2015-08-13 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first in a new series of classic detective stories from the vaults of HarperCollins is the world’s first locked-room mystery, a seemingly impossible crime story as powerful as any that have copied the scenario since.

Author : Israel Zangwill
Publisher : Collins Crime Club
ISBN 13 : 9780008242701
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Perfect Crime written by Israel Zangwill and published by Collins Crime Club. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A man is murdered for no apparent reason. He has no enemies and there seemed to be no motive for anyone murdering him. No clues remained and the instrument with which the murder was committed could not be traced. The door of the room in which the body was discovered was locked and bolted on the inside, both windows were latched, and there was no trace of any intruder. The greatest detectives in the land were puzzled. Here indeed was the perfect crime, the work of a master mind. Can you solve the problem which baffled Scotland Yard for so long, until at last the missing link in the chain of evidence was revealed?

Author : Israel Zangwill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.2Z/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Big Bow Mystery written by Israel Zangwill and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Israel Zangwill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Big Bow Mystery Illustrated written by Israel Zangwill and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-04 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Regarded as the first full-length locked room mystery, the novel focuses on a murder that has occurred inside a locked room, with no clear indication as to the weapon used, the perpetrator of the horrendous crime, or a possible escape route. Needless to say, The Big Bow Mystery has all the elements necessary to engage its audience and encourage them to look between the lines in an attempt to unravel the complex murder.Set in Bow, east London, the novel opens when Mrs. Drabdump, a widow who rents out rooms, panics when one of her lodgers does not respond to her fervent attempts to wake him. In a moment of distress, she seeks the help of her neighbor George Grodman, incidentally a former detective, who eventually forces his way inside the room. Consequently, they witness a gruesome sight, as they find Arthur Constant dead, his throat slashed. Astounded by the strange circumstances under which the murder has occurred, bearing in mind that the door and windows were locked and secured from the inside with no apparent way of leaving the crime scene, the case is truly baffling. Moreover, the motive for the murder is also a mystery, as Constant was a likeable man, known for his efforts to help the working class.

Author : Israel Zangwill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780857300072
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Big Bow Mystery written by Israel Zangwill and published by . This book was released on 2016-02 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Israel Zangwill
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781451005844
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Big Bow Mystery (Classic Reprint) written by Israel Zangwill and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Big Bow Mystery Mysterious circumstances are apt to be com plicated by comic. The indispensable con dition of a good mystery is that it should be able and unable to be solved by the reader, and that the writer s solution should satisfy. Many a mystery runs on breathlessly enough till the denouement is reached, only to leave the reader with the sense of having been robbed of his breath under false pre tenses. And not only must the solution be adequate, but all its data must be given in the body of the story. The author must not suddenly spring a new person or a new circumstance upon his reader at the end. Thus, if a friend were to ask me to guess who dined with him yesterday, it would be fatuous if he had in mind somebody of whom he knew I had never heard. The only person who has ever solved The Big Bow Mystery is myself. This is not paradox but plain fact. For long before the book was written, I said to myself one night that no mystery-monger had ever murdered a man in a room to which there was no possible access. The puzzle was scarcely propounded ere the solution flew up and the idea lay stored in my mind til], years later. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Israel Israel Zangwill
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781493561216
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Big Bow Mystery written by Israel Israel Zangwill and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As this little book was written some four years ago, I feel able to review it without prejudice. A new book just hot from the brain is naturally apt to appear faulty to its begetter, but an old book has got into the proper perspective and may be praised by him without fear or favor. "The Big Bow Mystery" seems to me an excellent murder story, as murder stories go, for, while as sensational as the most of them, it contains more humor and character creation than the best. Indeed, the humor is too abundant. Mysteries should be sedate and sober. There should be a pervasive atmosphere of horror and awe such as Poe manages to create. Humor is out of tone; it would be more artistic to preserve a somber note throughout. But I was a realist in those days, and in real life mysteries occur to real persons with their individual humors, and mysterious circumstances are apt to be complicated by comic. The indispensable condition of a good mystery is that it should be able and unable to be solved by the reader, and that the writer's solution should satisfy.

Author : Israel Zangwill
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781438223261
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Big Bow Mystery written by Israel Zangwill and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2008-05-20 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Big Bow Msytery is reported to be the first 'locked-room' mystery novel - a detective story that follows the rules of 'fair play' by providing the evidence for the solution, with clues imbedded in the text. It also supplies alternative solutions and suspects, and a classic 'red herring' approach, with a 'least-likely' suspect as the villain. The plot involves the murder of a well-known 'Union Agitator, ' his throat having been cut in his East End flat on London's Bow Street. His door was locked and bolted from the inside, and the windows were inaccessible. No weapon was found in the room, hence it appeared to not be a suicide. An obvious suspect has a good alibi when the murder was committed. The details are revealed in an amusing coroner's inquest comes up with a strange open verdict: "It seems clear that the deceased did not commit suicide. It seems equally clear that the deceased was not murdered."

Author : Israel Zangwill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Big Bow Mystery Annotated written by Israel Zangwill and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-10 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the earliest "locked room" mysteries. All of the clues are in the story -- but you'll be surprised by the ending!

Author : Israel Zangwill
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781542722704
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Big Bow Mystery (1892) Novel by written by Israel Zangwill and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-01-24 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Big Bow Mystery was the first locked room mystery novel. It has been almost continuously in print since 1891 and has been used as the basis for three commercial movies. On a foggy day in the Big Bow District of London, Mrs. Drabdump becomes fearful for her lodger. She knocks several times at his door but no answer. She runs to Inspector Grodman and together they break down his door to find the pooor man lying in his bed with his throat cut. The door was locked from the inside. Thus begins Israel Zangwill's classic mystery. Written in 1891, Big Bow Mystery still retains its power to amuse and entertain, both as a clever mystery and a satire of Victorian London.