NMLP P-036184 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-09

The Big Bow Mystery

Israel Zangwill · Henry & Co. (London) · 1892

It is regarded as one of the earliest locked-room mystery novels published in English, a form the story helped popularize well before the genre's Golden Age

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-036184 for "The Big Bow Mystery" by Israel Zangwill (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-036184, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).