Classic Locked-Room Mysteries is a fascinating collection of brilliant puzzles that all raise the question "How was it done?" Featuring well-known detectives like Sherlock Holmes and Father Brown, as well as lesser-known characters like Jacques Futrelle's Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen, each story invites the reader to play detective and presents a challenge: Can you solve the mystery before the solution is revealed? Locked-room mysteries reached their peak during the Victorian and Edwardian eras. This collection, edited and introduced by David Stuart Davies, brings together stories from masters of the genre such as Edgar Allan Poe, Wilkie Collins, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and G. K. Chesterton.