The Curious Cases of Cyriack Skinner Grey

This long-awaited volume in the series of Arthur Porges collections assembles fourteen "impossible crime" stories featuring the wheelchair-bound crime consultant Cyriack Skinner Grey. Eleven of the tales included in this book have been reproduced from 1960s and 70s issues of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, while the remaining three stories are published here for the first time. Porges' Cyriack Skinner Grey mysteries are superb examples of the traditional "locked room" genre of detective fiction. An array of ingenious plots are on display in this fascinating collection of classic short stories by a master short story writer.

Contents:

• The Scientist and the Bagful of Water
• The Scientist and the Wife Killer
• The Scientist and the Vanished Weapon
• The Scientist and the Obscene Crime
• The Scientist and the Multiple Murder
• The Scientist and the Invisible Safe
• The Scientist and the Two Thieves
• The Scientist and the Time Bomb
• The Scientist and the Platinum Chain
• The Scientist and the Exterminator
• The Scientist and the Stolen Rembrandt
• The Scientist and the Poisoner
• The Scientist and the Heavenly Alibi
• The Scientist and the One-Word Clue