title: The Locked Room Reader: Stories of Impossible Crimes and Escapes.
author: Hans Stefan Santesson
description: <br />The Locked Room, by John Dickson Carr<br />The Dauphin's Doll, by Ellery Queen<br />Nothing is Impossible, by Clayton Rawson<br />His Heart Could Break, by Craig Rice<br />The Oracle of the Dog, by G. K. Chesterton<br />When a Felon Needs a Friend, by Morris Hershman<br />The Doomdorf Mystery, by Melville Davisson Post<br />The Big Bow Mystery, by Israel Zangwill<br />The Man Who Read John Dickson Carr, by William Brittain<br />The Long Way Down, by Edward D. Hoch<br />Time Trammel, by Miriam Allen deFord<br />Reprieve, by Lawrence G. Blochman<br />The Smoke-Filled Locked Room, by Anthony Boucher<br />Bones for Davy Jones, by Joseph Cummings<br />The Fine Italian Hand, by Thomas Flanagan<br />The Narrowing Lust, by Henry Kane
zlib_text: 
  
  
  SAZA Presents
  
  
  LOCKDOWN
  
  
  By Lee Herrmann
  
  
  
  
  
  ![image](d2d_images/image005.png)
  
  
  Lockdown
  
  By Lee Herrmann
  
  ©2020 Tall Tales
  
  
  Cover design by Lee Herrmann
  
  Edited by Lee Herrmann
  
  
  ––––––––
  
  
  This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, locations, and incidents
  are
  
  
  products of the author's imagination. Any resemblance to actual
  
  
  events, places or persons, living or dead, is coincidental.
  
  
  ––––––––
  
  
  [www.saza](http://www.saza).co.za
  
  [info@saza.co.za](mailto:info@saza.co.za)
  
  ![image](d2d_images/image004.png)
  
  
  For Cyril
  
  
  Keep poppin’ & lockin’
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # Table of Contents
  
  
  [Title Page](c001.xhtml)
  
  
  [Copyright Page](c002.xhtml)
  
  
  [ENTRY 1](c003.xhtml)
  
  
  [ENTRY 2](c004.xhtml)
  
  
  [ENTRY 3](c005.xhtml)
  
  
  [ENTRY 4](c006.xhtml)
  
  
  [ENTRY 5](c007.xhtml)
  
  
  [ENTRY 6](c008.xhtml)
  
  
  [ENTRY 7](c009.xhtml)
  
  
  [ENTRY 8](c010.xhtml)
  
  
  [ENTRY 9](c011.xhtml)
  
  
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