Locked-room mystery
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The "locked-room" or "impossible crime" mystery is a type of crime seen in crime and detective fiction. The crime in question, typically murder, is committed in circumstances under which it appears im
The detective Sherlock Holmes searches for clues in "The Adventure of the Speckled Band" (1892), following a murder in a room where the door had been locked from the inside
The Hollow Man (Carr novel)
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The Hollow Man is a 1935 locked room mystery novel by the American writer John Dickson Carr, featuring his recurring investigator Gideon Fell. It contains in chapter 17 the often-reprinted "locked roo
Locked-room mystery
…is Mike W. Barr's Maze Agency. John Dickson Carr, who also wrote as Carter Dickson, was known as "master of the locked-room mystery". His 1935 novel The Hollow Man (US title: The Three Coffins) was in 1981 voted the best locked-room mystery novel of all time by 17 authors and reviewers, although Carr himself names…
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