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The Big Bow Mystery

First published: 1892
Pages: 116

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Chapter 01
22:41
Chapter 02
22:07
Chapter 03
24:15
Chapter 04
20:28
Chapter 05
26:04
Chapter 06
26:13
Chapter 07
23:52
Chapter 08
23:34
Chapter 09
12:56
Chapter 10
46:59
Chapter 11
20:03
Chapter 12
36:22

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Widely regarded as the first full-length locked-room mystery, this 1892 novel opens with idealistic reformer Arthur Constant found dead in his London lodgings, his throat cut, every door and window bolted from the inside. A retired detective and a rival Scotland Yard man chase competing theories while the newspapers whip the public into a frenzy. Israel Zangwill treats the puzzle with sly wit, poking fun at journalism, radical politics, and the detective genre even as he plays the game straight. The ingenious solution set a pattern that writers have borrowed ever since. Compact, funny, and clever, it remains a genuine landmark of crime fiction. Read it free in this PDF and EPUB edition.

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Israel Zangwill

Israel Zangwill (1864-1926) was an English writer and prominent Jewish intellectual, best known for "Children of the Ghetto" and for popularizing the phrase "the melting pot." A humorist, playwright, and tireless campaigner for social causes, he brought sharp observation and comic energy to everything he wrote.