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    "locked-room" or "impossible crime" mystery is a type of crime seen in crime and detective fiction. The crime in question, typically murder ("locked-room...
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    mystery novel written by French author Gaston Leroux. One of the first locked-room mystery novels, it was first published serially in France in the periodical...
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    for popularizing what would become known as the historical mystery. The locked-room mystery is a subgenre of detective fiction. The crime—almost always...
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    seemingly impossible plots and is regarded as the master of the "locked room mystery". Two of Carr's most famous works are The Case of Constant Suicides...
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  • aired August 9, 2007) 4. Murder 101: The Locked Room Mystery – Dr. Maxwell and Bryant try to solve the mystery of the murder of a New Age spiritualist...
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  • The Hollow Man (Carr novel) (category Locked-room mysteries)
    The Hollow Man (The Three Coffins in the USA) is a 1935 locked room mystery novel by the American writer John Dickson Carr, featuring his recurring investigator...
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  • The Honjin Murders (category Locked-room mysteries)
    Leroux's The Mystery of the Yellow Room as an emblematic locked-room mystery. Though writing a noir and sometimes graphic murder mystery, Yokomizo worked...
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  • The Locked Room (original Swedish title: Det slutna rummet) is a mystery novel by Swedish writers Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, published in 1972. It is...
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  • John Dickson Carr (category American mystery writers)
    as the best locked-room mystery of all time by a panel of 17 mystery authors and reviewers. He also wrote a number of historical mysteries. The son of...
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  • locked-room mystery is a type of crime featured in detective fiction. Locked room may also refer to: The Locked Room, a 1972 mystery novel The Locked...
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    most famous locked-room mysteries was The Hollow Man. The resolution of such a story might involve showing how the room was not really "locked", or that...
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  • Man or The Hollow Man may refer to: The Hollow Man (1935 novel), a locked room mystery novel by John Dickson Carr The Hollow Man (1992 novel), a science...
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  • story writers and reviewers, this novel was voted as the eighth best locked room mystery of all time. A wealthy publisher and collector of precious stones...
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  • The Judas Window (category Locked-room mysteries)
    Judas Window (also published as The Crossbow Murder) is a famous locked room mystery novel by the American writer John Dickson Carr, writing under the...
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    (previously "The Man with no Face"). He also published "The Locked Room Mystery mystery" [sic] in The Guardian newspaper in 2007; this story remains...
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  • Rim of the Pit (category Locked-room mysteries)
    (1944) is a locked-room mystery novel written by Hake Talbot, a pen name of Henning Nelms. Nelms, as Talbot, published one other mystery novel as well...
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  • Asimov called "the three well-worn gimmicks of pact with the devil, locked room mystery, and time travel". Isidore Wellby has just left the army and, abandoned...
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  • The Tokyo Zodiac Murders (category Locked-room mysteries)
    Further, when discovered, the room is locked and apparently had been locked from inside - leading to a locked room mystery. When the studio is investigated...
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  • The Kennel Murder Case (category Locked-room mysteries)
    a 1933 murder mystery novel written by S. S. Van Dine with fictional detective Philo Vance investigating a complex locked-room mystery. One of the Coe...
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  • Death from a Top Hat (category Locked-room mysteries)
    Death from a Top Hat (1938) is a locked-room mystery novel written by Clayton Rawson. It is the first of four mysteries featuring The Great Merlini, a stage...
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    Crime fiction (redirect from Murder mystery)
    locked-room mystery is a specialized kind of a whodunit in which the crime is committed under apparently impossible circumstances, such as a locked room...
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  • The New York Trilogy (category American mystery novels)
    and The Locked Room (1986), it has since been collected into a single volume. The Trilogy is a postmodern interpretation of detective and mystery fiction...
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  • Paul Halter (category French mystery writers)
    19 June 1956) is a French writer of crime fiction known for his locked room mysteries. Halter was born 19 June 1956 in Haguenau, Bas-Rhin France and pursued...
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  • The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (category Locked-room mysteries)
    The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul is a 1988 humorous fantasy detective novel by Douglas Adams. It is the second book by Adams featuring private detective...
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  • The Mystery Room in the Arizona Biltmore Hotel in Phoenix, Arizona Locked-room mystery, a type of crime seen in crime and detective fiction Room: The...
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    series) 2007 College Can Be Murder If Wishes Were Horses 2008 The Locked Room Mystery Light Years Away Colonel Burke Feature film (released 2015) 2010...
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  • in London's East End, it is one of the earliest examples of the locked-room mystery genre. The story served as the basis for three Hollywood film versions...
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    Sheridan Le Fanu (category Irish mystery writers)
    one of the earliest works of vampire literature, as well as the locked-room mystery Uncle Silas and the historical novel The House by the Churchyard...
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    that takes the form of a collection of closed-circle murder-mysteries Locked-room mystery "P.D. James: About the Author P.D. James". Randomhouse.com....
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  • Rocket to the Morgue (category Locked-room mysteries)
    American locked room mystery novel by Anthony Boucher (originally published as by "H. H. Holmes", Boucher's frequent pseudonym when writing mysteries or writing...
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