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Ten people arrive on an isolated island under different pretexts in Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None, published in 1939. Once cut off from the mainland, they face accusations connecting them with past deaths. As members of the group are killed according to a nursery rhyme, the survivors mu...

Two apparently impossible murders draw Dr. Gideon Fell into John Dickson Carr's The Hollow Man, published in 1935 and issued in the United States as The Three Coffins. Sealed or closely observed locations seem to rule out an ordinary explanation of the killings. Fell, a scholar and amateur investiga...

The Mystery of the Yellow Room is a French detective novel by Gaston Leroux, first published in book form in 1907. It introduces the young reporter and investigator Joseph Rouletabille, who examines an apparently impossible assault committed inside a locked room at the Chateau du Glandier. The novel...

The Crooked Hinge is a 1938 detective novel by John Dickson Carr featuring Dr. Gideon Fell. Set around an English country estate, its plot concerns two men who each claim to be the rightful heir and survivor of the sinking of the Titanic, followed by a seemingly impossible murder. The novel combines...

The Locked Room, or Kagi no Kakatta Heya, is a 2012 Japanese television mystery drama. It follows a security expert who examines murders that appear to have been committed in impossible locked-room circumstances. The series is intended for viewers who enjoy Japanese television mysteries, puzzle-cent...

Shari Lapena's An Unwanted Guest is a 2018 psychological thriller set at an isolated inn in New York's Catskill Mountains. A group of visitors becomes cut off by a snowstorm, and the situation turns into a locked-room mystery when guests begin dying and the remaining characters must determine whom t...