'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title. This new edition includes a brand new introduction by the Golden Age crime expert, Dr John Curran, author of ‘Agatha Christie’s Secret Notebooks’. 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?’ Here indeed was the perfect crime, the work of a master mind. 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. The greatest detectives in the land were puzzled. 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. No clues remained and the instrument with which the murder was committed could not be traced. He has no enemies and there seemed to be no motive for anyone murdering him. ‘A man is murdered for no apparent reason. Originally published as The Big Bow Mystery in 1891, and re-published by the Detective Club to coincide with a new film version called ‘The Perfect Crime’, Israel Zangwill’s novel invented the concept of the ‘locked room mystery’ and influenced almost every crime writer thereafter.

Try now for FREE What are your favorite books. (The Big Bow Mystery, 1892), del londinense Israel Zangwill, comienza con un asesinato. Now, almost 90 years later, these books are the classics of the Golden Age, republished at last with the same popular cover designs that appealed to their original readers. (Its retitled in some editions The Perfect Crime to match the title of the 1928 movie based on the book, the first screen adaptation of three.) No one can believe it w. “The Detective Story Club”, launched by Collins in 1929, was a clearing house for the best and most ingenious crime stories of the age, chosen by a select committee of experts. 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.

The Perfect Crime by Israel Zangwill