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My 2cts: try Clayton Rawson (The Great Merlini, Don Diavolo Mysteries). Rawson and Carr were acquainted and pushed each other into writing the best Locked Room mysteries. |
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H. Beam Piper's _Murder in the Gunroom_ is quite good, and has a great version here:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=122195 |
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![]() The Mystery Scene website has an article on them here. They were from the 1940s and 1950s, but you can find reasonably priced copies of at least some of them. I had one of them (it might still be hiding in the basement), and the covers were fairly sturdy. |
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