Death in 13 Rooms: An Impossible Crime Collection

By A. Carver

Murder can be quick - and not every problem takes a novel to solve. But what if the crime could never have happened in the first place? Challenge the impossible and yourself in these thirteen short stories from the world of The Author is Dead.

Impossible crime has returned. Confined at first to genteel closed circles where stranded suspects fall victim one by one, these magical mysteries can now happen anywhere - and in all shapes and sizes. In these thirteen tales of locked rooms and miracle problems, murder will be found in more and stranger forms than ever.

Murder can visit places as grand as a country house, as quiet as a vicarage, or as humble as a potting shed; can strike in a flooded cave, a flooded valley, even under the sea. The weapons of death can take any form, from a knife that vanishes after being used, to a crossbow raised and fired in a space too small to hold it, to thin air that delivers a fatal push. For murderers, too, you have your choice - an assassin who escapes through a window and vanishes, a serial attacker invisible to cameras, a ghost haunting an old classroom, even a lake monster. An eerie ritual disassembles an immortal man; a woodland monument executes anyone who takes a selfie. Death is everywhere, and no locked room can hold it.

What is it which all these bizarre cases have in common? Only two detectives, a young woman and an old one. For Alex Corby and Great-Aunt Cornelia, nothing is impossible.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1739583884
• ISBN13: 9781739583880
• Release Date: July 2026
• Publisher: Carver Culls
• Length: 372 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.1" x 7.8"