The Key Is Behind the Lock: Difference between revisions

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* There's a recurring gag in the [[Discworld]] novel ''[[Discworld/Thief of Time|Thief of Time]]'' about "opening the box with the crowbar you will find inside".

** Also, in ''[[Discworld/Jingo|Jingo]]'' the Bursar has locked himself in the Unseen University safe and taken the key with him. "It's not even as if there's a keyhole on the inside".

* A fairly standard situation in the [[Locked Room Mystery]] is for the police to have to break into the Locked Room, because the key is inside with the deceased.

* Subverted in a short story by [[Isaac Asimov]], where people are searching for an uranium asteroid an illegal miner found, and due to the miners dying in an accident, all they have is a statement by a silicon based alien that the coordinates are "on the asteroid" (the alien died right after saying that). {{spoiler|In the end it turns out that the alien wasn't good in astronomy, and the coordinates were actually ''on the ship'' - [[Hidden in Plain Sight|hidden among the registration codes of the equipment]]}}.