THE ATHENAEUMThe Big Bow MysteryIsrael Zangwill
Mystery
The Big Bow Mystery
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain textA man is found with his throat cut in a bedroom locked and bolted from the inside, in a lodging house in the East End of London. Zangwill’s short novel of 1891 is often called the first full-length locked-room mystery. The solution is outrageous, and entirely fair.
The librarian
- Reading time
- About 2 hr 55 min
- Where to find it
- The secret bookcase in the west wing
- Edition
- Project Gutenberg, eBook #28164. In the public domain in the United States.