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