This collection of criminal conundrums are more than whodunits, they're howdunits and are intended to stretch your powers of deduction to the limits.

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Introduction by David Renwick, the creator of Jonathan Creek

How do they do it? We all love to be amazed by the impossible crime story and the locked-room mystery and here, for the first time ever, is the biggest collection of such stories, all with the intention to completely baffle and confound you.
See if you can solve:
How a man can be stabbed in open countryside surrounded by plenty of witnesses who each saw nothing
How a woman in the audience at a theatre can be shot from the stage when the only people on it are male strippers - with no visible weapons!
How a man can be strangled in a car in which he was alone in the middle of a traffic jam
How an entire football team can vanish from a hotel
How a murdered man can be found in a plane's toilet at 30,000 feet - with the door locked from the inside!

In the last decade of Elizabeth's reign, Nick Revill, an aspiring actor comes to London seeking fame and fortune and stumbles 'into temporary employment with the Chamberlain's Men, a newly established company at the Globe Theatre in Southwark. Thrown out of his digs after an unfortunate incident 'involving his landlady and a brimming chamberpot, Nick is offered a lodging at a wealthy Thameside mansion by a black-clad youth whose father has Just died and whose mother instantly remained his uncle.
Pondering on the similarities between the young man's story and William Shakespeare's newest play Hamlet, Nick is charged with the task of finding out whether foul play was involved in the death of the old man. Very soon Nick uncovers evidence that suggests that something is indeed rotten at the heart of the Eliot household, and disturbingly, the finger of suspicion points at his employer and shareholder 'in the Chamberlain's Men: Mr William Shakespeare himself.

Forensic science has provided the key to some of this century's most complex and intriguing cases. Where traditional methods of detection have failed, time and time again, scientific routes of investigation and analysis have led to the conviction of many dangerous criminals.
The Mammoth Book of Murder and Science examines the landmark cases and shows how forensic science has developed over the last 150 years, including: Dr Sam Sheppard (USA, 1954) -the case that inspired The Fugitive TV series; Stratton Brothers (UK, 1905), a landmark case in criminal history, a pair of petty London villains being the first suspects convicted of murder by fingerprint evidence; Alice Crimmins (USA, 1965) - glamorous New York housewife accused of killing her daughter - the case turned on estimated time of death, fixed by examining the victim's stomach contents; Alger Hiss (USA, 1952) judicial history was made in 1893 when a jury was allowed to consider expert claims that a typewriter, too, made fingerprints. A fascinating collection that looks at the most notorious criminal cases in history solved by forensic science