Diagnosis: Impossible Harry Keating Ninety-years ago

Ninety-years ago

Christopher Huang

to be succeeded by such luminaries as Agatha Christie

Many of them

"by far the best and most vital English female detective")

Diagnosis: Impossible Harry Keating Ninety-years agoSatan himself would be proud of his ingenuity," John Dickson Carr said of Edward D. Hoch, today's major exponent of the Challenge to the Reader detective story. The former President of the Mystery Writers of America and an Edgar Award winner, Hoch is author of many classics featuring New England country doctor Sam Hawthorne, who in the 1920s and 1930s specialized in locked rooms and other impossible crimes. Diagnosis: Impossible begins with the tale