MORE THINGS IMPOSSIBLE: The Impossible Files of Dr. Sam Hawthorne (includes Laid in Separate Story, "The Bad Samaritan") by Hoch, Edward D - 2006

Norfolk, VA, U.S.A.: Crippen & Landru, 2006. 1st. Ed. A fine, unread copy in dust jacket. Limited to 230 clothbound copies, this being #88, SIGNED and numbered by the author. Accompanying each copy is a seperately printed pamphlet, "The Bad Samaritan" by Hoch. Dr. Sam Hawthorne, a New England country doctor in the first half of the 20th century, was constantly faced by murders in locked rooms, impossible disappearances, and other so-called "miracle crimes." This book contains fifteen of Dr Sam's extraordinary cases solved between 1927 and 1931, including: Impossible murder in a house that whispers; Poisoning by a gargoyle on the courthouse roof; The case of the Devil in the windmill; The houseboat that resembles the Mary Celeste; The affair of the vanishing Gypsies; Stabbing in the locked cocpit of a plane in midair; A ghostly pirate in a lighthouse...... Signed. First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/As New. Book.