A mong all the locked-room crime mysteries, better known as the “howdunits,” the 1935 crime novel, The Three Coffins, also published under the U.K. title The Hollow Man, is considered to be ...

Its creator, Shane Sherman, a computer programmer in Texas, has used more than 300 lists to come up with a list of lists, which he calls, not entirely seriously, the “greatest books of all time ...