Locked room mysteries have been around for over a century and many of them are now available in the public domain.
Locked room mystery short story.
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Among aficionados of detective fiction the term locked room mystery has become an inaccurate but useful catch all phrase meaning the telling of a crime that appears to be impossible.
Indeed in my own writing its my short stories that feature locked room crimes.
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Originally published in 1966 mystery and more mystery is a collection of robert arthurs most loved short stories.
Among the best was clayton rawson whose four novels and all his short stories featured the great merlini a magician who was asked by the new york police department to explain the phenomenon of human footprints on.
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Stories from the upcoming novel the locked room.
One of the main enticements of a locked room puzzle is the solution that must simultaneously be believable and so well hidden that the reader doesnt guess on their own so its not surprising that locked room mysteries flourish in the form of short fiction.
Below i have listed a number of stories that are available for free.
So i decided to make it not just a whodunnit but a howdunnit by using one of the crime genres great formats.
An award winning short story that landed the author a contract to pen the locked room classic black aura 1974 but in this story his detective thackeray phin is confronted with a strangulation in a locked and windowless apartment and consults the dr.
Other mystery writers also produced masterpieces of locked room detective stories but they are as rare as delicatessens in gaza.
Also i wasnt writing the type of urban magical crime so i couldnt rely on those things to carry the narrative.
Can you work out the culprit in this witty short story by jasper fforde author of the popular thursday next mystery novels.
Featuring 10 tales of varying length the book merges locked room mysteries impossible crimes and classic detective stories.
Or rather in my case a locked temple mystery.
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