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The Locked Room: The Problem Of Cell 13 by Jacques Futrelle
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Sunday, April 13, 2014. The Problem Of Cell 13 by Jacques Futrelle. I find classic mystery stories a bit of a mixed bag. On the one hand many of them feature problems and solutions that were the first of their kind, but on the other many of the ideas have been iterated upon and improved by later authors. The language and pacing of stories written a century ago also takes a little getting used to. The Problem Of Cell 13. The short story is available in its entirety for free at Futrelle.com. Originally fro...
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The Locked Room: May 2014
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Saturday, May 31, 2014. Footprints in the Snow by Maurice Leblanc. One set of footprints leads to the scene of a disturbance, and a different set leads away. With the victim missing, where is the body? And how did the assailant traverse over fields of snow without leaving any footprints? Le Clos Lupin - Leblancs home is now a museum dedicated. To his most famous character. Source: Cultural Etretat. Footprints in the Snow. The short story is available in its entirety for free at Project Gutenberg. Origin...
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The Locked Room: Mystery and More Mystery by Robert Arthur
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Tuesday, September 16, 2014. Mystery and More Mystery by Robert Arthur. A mysterious knife that does its fatal work without the aid of human hands. An embezzler who hides his stolen money and then finds getting it back is a life's work. A kooky murderer who thinks he is Sherlock Holmes and solves his own crime. A beautiful woman who enters a house on a snowbound hilltop and impossibly disappears. The Blow from Heaven. Seen entering a house perched on a snowy hilltop, an unfortunate woman is never seen ag...
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The Locked Room: June 2014
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Sunday, June 29, 2014. Agatha Christies Black Coffee. Sir Claud Amory turns off the lights in a locked room full of suspects. When the lights come back on, he is dead. Who killed the notorious inventor, and why? Having just completed its run at the Bord Gais Energy Theatre in Dublin, the classic Agatha Christie play is moving to the UK from August through to November (dates and locations here. Upon release in 1930 the play was warmly received, though it is now showing its age a little. The central pl...
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The Locked Room: Whistle Up The Devil by Derek Smith
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Sunday, September 7, 2014. Whistle Up The Devil by Derek Smith. A man seals himself in a room, with both the window and the door under constant guard. Despite the precautions, a mysterious killer stabs him in the back and vanishes without a trace. To compound the confusion a potential suspect is later killed in a prison cell, despite no-one having access to the jail. A welcome entry to the impossible crime genre that can stand proudly with the stories it attempts to emulate. About P.J. Bergman. Originall...
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The Locked Room: September 2014
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Tuesday, September 16, 2014. Mystery and More Mystery by Robert Arthur. A mysterious knife that does its fatal work without the aid of human hands. An embezzler who hides his stolen money and then finds getting it back is a lifes work. A kooky murderer who thinks he is Sherlock Holmes and solves his own crime. A beautiful woman who enters a house on a snowbound hilltop and impossibly disappears. The Blow from Heaven. Links to this post. Labels: Classic Locked Room Mysteries. Originally from the United Ki...
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The Locked Room: The Locked Room (Book)
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The Locked Room (Book). The Locked Room is an upcoming novel by mystery writer P.J. Bergman. The book brings the challenge and intrigue of the impossible crime genre to the modern audience with a contemporary setting and compelling anti-hero. Inspired by the works of John Dickson Carr, Jacques Futrelle and Arthur Conan Doyle, The Locked Room fuses the complexity of a novel with the immediacy of short stories to provide eleven logic-defying mysteries that combine to form the overarching narrative. Three t...
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The Locked Room: Free Mystery Stories
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Locked room mysteries have been around for over a century, and many of them are now available in the public domain. Below I have listed a number of stories that are available for free. I'll be updating the list as I cover more stories for the site. Stories from the upcoming novel The Locked Room:. Private Eye by P.J. Bergman. Date: 2014, Length: 30 pages. Diagnosis Cancer by P.J. Bergman. Date: 2014, Length: 30 pages. Window of Opportunity by P.J. Bergman. Date: 2014, Length: 28 pages. Date: 1907, Length...
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The Locked Room: Mystery News: BBC's Sherlock Wins at the Creative Arts Emmys
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Sunday, August 17, 2014. Mystery News: BBC's Sherlock Wins at the Creative Arts Emmys. The BBC series Sherlock has picked up four Creative Arts Emmy Awards in Los Angeles. His Last Vow, the final episode of Sherlock's third season, won awards for music, cinematography, single-camera picture editing, and sound editing. Martin Freeman as John Watson, Benedict Cumberbacht as Sherlock Holmes,. And Lars Mikkelsenas villain Charles Augustus Magnussen. Source: DigitalSpy. March 7, 2016 at 2:38 PM. I would have ...
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The Locked Room: The Adventure of the Speckled Band by Arthur Conan Doyle
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Thursday, April 24, 2014. The Adventure of the Speckled Band by Arthur Conan Doyle. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Having locked herself in her bedroom, a woman is killed with no trace of her assailant. The only clues are a strange whistling sound and her mysterious dying words - "the speckled band". The Adventure of the Speckled Band. The short story is available in its entirety for free at Project Gutenberg. If you want to read on your Kindle you can download it here. Send to Kindle instructions here. Of the ...
