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Golden Age Whodunits

A classic cosy crime collection, featuring puzzling whodunits, perfect for fans of Golden Age murder mysteries

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Golden Age Whodunits

By: Otto Penzler, Stephen Vincent Benét, Anthony Boucher, Fredric Brown, Mignon G. Eberhart, F. Scott Fitzgerald, C. Daly King, Ring Lardner, Stuart Palmer, Melville Davisson Post, Ellery Queen, Clayton Rawson, Helen Reilly, Mary Roberts Rinehart, T.S. Stribling
Narrated by: Christopher Ragland, Amy Finegan
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Summary

A unique collection of the finest Golden Age mystiers - puzzling whodunnits that have entertained and delighted readers for centuries.

With Edgar Award-winning Otto Penzler as guide, delve into an irresistible collection of the finest Golden Age American whodunits, including household names and master storytellers, such as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ellery Queen and Mary Roberts Rinehart, as well as Ring Lardner, Melville Davisson Post and Helen Reilly.

Featuring a murder so baffling that only a stage magician could solve it, a barber who slowly reveals his dark past over the course of a deadly haircut, and an investigation impeded by too many detectives, this anthology features the very best puzzling whodunnits that put the reader's crime-solving skills to the test.

© Otto Penzler 2026 (P) Penguin Audio 2026

 Anthologies & Short Stories Cosy Crime Fiction Mystery Traditional Detectives Crime
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Critic reviews

Stephen Benét’s “The Amateur of Crime” (1927) (is) a very good read. Anthony Boucher’s “Black Murder” (1943) is a...impressive wartime murder story, but the collection really gets going with Frederic Brown’s futuristic “Crisis 1999” (1949) in which the technology of detection is at risk in a troubled future Chicago. Mignon Eberhart’s “The Flowering Face” (1934) has sexual tension and a high-place fall while Thomas Stribling’s “A Passage to Benares” (1929) is a brilliant, hallucinatory tale from Port of Spain with an extraordinary punch at the end. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Dance” (1926) a very effective and well-written story set in the small-town South with sexual jealousy the key theme.
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