The Man Who Read Mysteries

It s been worth the wait. One of the authors most requested by Crippen & Landru readers throughout its 25-year history has been mystery writer William Brittain, whose fiction challenges the reader with tricky plots presented in a unique style. For the first time, all of the popular Man Who Read stories and a selection of the Mr. Strang stories have been collected into a single volume. Both series appeared in Ellery Queen s Mystery Magazine during the mid-years of the 20th century. Sadly, Brittain later forsook mystery fiction to become a children s author, and his YA novel The Wish Giver earned him a Newbery Honor award. This collection was edited by Josh Pachter, who also wrote the introduction and compiled a bibliography of Brittain s many publications.

• Challenge the Impossible
• The Crime of Miss Oyster Brown and Other Stories
• The Cases of Lieutenant Timothy Trant
• All But Impossible: The Impossible Files of Dr. Sam Hawthorne
• Silver Bullets
• The Seventh Guest
• Nothing Is Impossible: Further Problems of Dr. Sam Hawthorne
• Death of an Art Collector: A Nero Wolfe Mystery (The Nero Wolfe Mysteries)
• The Gold Watch
• More Things Impossible: The Second Casebook of Dr. Sam Hawthorne