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A seemingly impossible crime. The standard example being that of a murder victim found in a room with only a single door, securely locked from the inside. Can be the basis for a single plot, or an entire show. A well-designed '''Locked Room Mystery''' provides pleasure from trying to figure out the puzzle before it is revealed, from moments of dawning realisation, and from a satisfyingly logical solution. A poorly designed
Originally from crime fiction, John Dickson Carr being an acknowledged master. It is noteworthy that [[Edgar Allan Poe]]'s short story ''The Murders in the Rue Morgue'', widely considered to be the first detective story, involves a
Appears on television in a number of forms. The relatively pure form as a sub-genre of crime television (e.g., ''[[Monk]]'', ''[[Jonathan Creek]]'') where the puzzle is eventually unravelled by an eccentric protagonist using subtle clues and pure reason.
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** The eighth [[Ellery Queen]] mystery, ''The Chinese Orange Mystery'' is a locked room mystery with exceedingly weird clues, including the fact that the murder victim is found with his clothes on ''backwards''.
* The ''[[Psych]]'' tie-in novel "Mind over Magic" centers on the case of a costumed magician who appears to dissolve into nothingness in a water tank before a crowd of spectators but never reappears after the illusion, with a dead body suddenly in the tank in the magician's place.
* Amelia Bones's body was found in this fashion by the [[Muggle]] police in ''[[
* One of the "girls" disappears from a third floor room in ''[[The Alienist]]''.
* C. Daly King's ''Obelists Fly High'' is a variant: the murder takes place on an airplane.
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