Great Locked Room Mysteries



Impossible Crimes

The locked-room mystery is a subgenre of detective fiction in which a crime - almost always murder - is committed under circumstances under which it was seemingly impossible for the perpetrator to commit the crime and evade detection in the course of getting in and out of the crime scene. The crime typically involves a crime scene with no indication as to how the intruder could have entered or left, ie, a locked room.

In a proper locked-room mystery, the rooms are sealed with doors and windows locked, no secret entrances and under close supervision. The solutions don't have supernatural elements, hidden panels, long-lost twins, waking from dreams or hallucinations. They are deduced by detectives, who explain all to the incredulous characters and the baffled reader.

Works

CompositionKindCreatorAsNotedIn
CompositionKindCreatorAsNotedIn
And Then There Were None (Christie book) Novel
Suddenly At His Residence Novel
The Adventure of the Speckled Band (short story) Short Story
The Big Bow Mystery (book) Novel
The Case of the Constant Suicides Novel
The Hollow Man Novel
The King Is Dead Novel
The Moonstone (book) Novel
The Mystery of the Yellow Room Book
The Seventh Hypothesis Novel
The Tokyo Zodiac Murders Novel



People

Last Name Name AsNotedIn
Carr: John Dickson Carr

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