title: The Mammoth Book of Perfect Crimes and Impossible Mysteries
author: Mike Ashley
description: <div>Mike Ashley is editor of The Mammoth Book of Locked Room Mysteries, and several volumes of The Mammoth Book of Historical Whodunnits, as well as numerous other crime anthologies.</div>
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  All But Impossible!
  
  
  
  
  
  Anthology of Impossible Crime Stories by Members of the Mystery Writers of
  America
  
  
  
  
  
  Edited by
  
  
  
  
  
  Edward D. Hoch
  
  
  
  
  
  Published by Ticknor & Fields
  
  
  
  
  
  1981
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### CONTENTS
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  * [Cover](cover.xhtml)
  
  
  
  
  
  * [Title Page](titlepage.html)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  * [THE SHADOW OF THE GOAT](story001.html)
  
  
  
  
  
  * [ _John Dickson Carr_](story001.html#toc_1)
  
  
  
  
  
  * [THE LITTLE HOUSE AT CROIX-ROUSSE](story002.html)
  
  
  
  
  
  * [ _Georges Simenon_](story002.html#toc_1)
  
  
  
  
  
  * [THE PROBLEM OF THE EMPEROR’S MUSHROOMS](story003.html)
  
  
  
  
  
  * [ _James Yaffe_](story003.html#toc_1)
  
  
  
  
  
  * [FROM ANOTHER WORLD](story004.html)
  
  
  
  
  
  * [ _Clayton Rawson_](story004.html#toc_1)
  
  
  
  
  
  * [THROUGH A GLASS, DARKLY](story005_split_000.html)
  
  
  
  
  
  * [ _Helen McCloy_](story005_split_000.html#toc_1) _
  
  
  
  
  
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  * _[Chapter One](story005_split_000.html#toc_2)_
  
  
  * [Chapter Two](story005_split_000.html#top)
  
  
  * [Chapter Three](story005_split