Creator
Dennis Wheatley and J. G. Links
Title
Murder Off Miami.
Publisher
Crime-Book Society by Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers) Ltd.
Date
[1936]
Description
A curious experiment by the thriller writer Dennis Wheatley with the planning help of J. G. Links, Murder Off Miami was published as a “murder dossier,” an inspector’s file complete with depositions, crime scene photographs, fabric scraps, hair samples, matchsticks, etc. The reader is asked to solve the mystery before opening the sealed solution. The overall approach was a dose of reality in a typically artificial age. Over 80,000 copies were sold in Great Britain for three shillings and six pence, and the experiment was repeated three times more.
Source
From the Collection of Jeffrey Johnson
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