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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 ''[[Harry Potter/Harry Potter and Thethe Half-Blood Prince (novel)|Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince]]'', the police of course couldn't figure what happened, but the reader knew that she was a wizard killed by the Death Eaters.
* 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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