DIAGNOSIS: IMPOSSIBLE, THE PROBLEMS OF DR. SAM HAWTHORNE

Hoch, Edward D.

ISBN 10: 1885941021 / ISBN 13: 9781885941022

Published by Crippen & Landru, Publishers, Norfolk: VA, 1996

About this Item

1st printing of the trade size paperback. A fine, unread copy still in shrinkwrap. This collection is set in New England during the 1920's and the 1930's, and features country doctor Sam Hawthorne who specializes in locked room and other impossible crimes. Among the 12 stories is the classic tale of a horse and buggy that enter a covered bridge -- and vanish. Introduction by the author; Sam Hawthorne chronology and bibliography by Marvin Lachman.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: DIAGNOSIS: IMPOSSIBLE, THE PROBLEMS OF DR. SAM HAWTHORNE
• Publisher: Crippen & Landru, Publishers, Norfolk: VA
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1885941021
• ISBN 13: 9781885941022
• Binding: Pictorial Wrappers
• Illustrator: Heyer, Carol
• Edition: First Printing.
• Condition: Fine
• Book Type: Trade Paperback
• Seller catalogs:
  • Short Stories
  • Small Press
  • Mystery and Detective
  • Paperback

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Synopsis

This collection is set in New England during the 1920's and the 1930's, and features country doctor Sam Hawthorne who specializes in locked room and other impossible crimes. Among the 12 stories is the classic tale of a horse and buggy that enter a covered bridge -- and vanish. Introduction by the author; Sam Hawthorne chronology and bibliography by Marvin Lachman.

About the Author

John Dickson Carr said of Edward D. Hoch, "Satan himself would be proud of his ingenuity." A master storyteller, Hoch is former President of the Mystery Writers of America, the recipient of an Edgar in the short-story category, and today's major exponent of the challenge-to-the-reader detective story. Diagnosis: Impossible is the finest collection of impossible crime stories since the work of John Dickson Carr or perhaps even of Satan himself.