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The "locked-room" or "impossible crime" mystery is a type of crime seen in crime and detective fiction. The crime in question, typically murder ("locked-room murder"), is committed in circumstances under which it appeared impossible for the perpetrator to enter the crime scene, commit the crime, and leave undetected.[1] The crime in question typically involves a situation whereby an intruder could not have left; for example the original literal "locked room": a murder victim found in a windowless room locked from the inside at the time of discovery. Following other conventions of classic detective fiction, the reader is normally presented with the puzzle and all of the clues, and is encouraged to solve the mystery before the solution is revealed in a dramatic climax.
The prima facie impression from a locked room crime is that the perpetrator is a dangerous, supernatural entity capable of defying the laws of nature by walking through walls or vanishing into thin air. The need for a rational explanation for the crime is what drives the protagonist to look beyond these appearances and solve the puzzle.
Edgar Allan Poe's "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" (1841) is generally considered the first locked-room mystery.[1][2] However, Robert Adey credits Sheridan Le Fanu for "A Passage in the Secret History of an Irish Countess" (1838), which was published three years before Poe's "Rue Morgue".[1]
Other early locked-room mysteries include Israel Zangwill's The Big Bow Mystery (1892);[3] "The Adventure of the Speckled Band" (1892) and "The Adventure of the Empty House" (1903), two Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle; "The Problem of Cell 13" (1905) by Jacques Futrelle, featuring "The Thinking Machine" Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen;[3] and Le Mystre de la Chambre Jaune (The Mystery of the Yellow Room), written in 1907 by French journalist and author Gaston Leroux.[3] G. K. Chesterton's Father Brown stories, beginning in 1911,[4] often featured locked-room mysteries.[3]
Pulp magazines in the 1930s often contained impossible crime tales, dubbed weird menace, in which a series of supernatural or science-fiction type events is eventually explained rationally. Notable practitioners of the period were Fredric Brown, Paul Chadwick and, to a certain extent, Cornell Woolrich, although these writers tended to rarely use the Private Eye protagonists that many associate with pulp fiction. Quite a few comic book impossible crimes seem to draw on the "weird menace" tradition of the pulps. However, celebrated writers such as G. K. Chesterton, Arthur Conan Doyle, Clayton Rawson, and Sax Rohmer have also had their works adapted to comic book form. In 1934, Dashiell Hammett created the comic strip Secret Agent X9, illustrated by Alex Raymond, which contained a locked-room episode. One American comic book series that made good use of locked-room mysteries is Mike W. Barr's Maze Agency.
In French, Pierre Boileau, Thomas Narcejac, Gaston Boca, Marcel Lanteaume, Pierre Vry, Noel Vindry, and the Belgian Stanislas-Andr Steeman were other important "impossible crime" writers, Vindry being the most prolific with 16 novels. Edgar Faure, who later to become Prime Minister of France, also wrote in the genre, but was a not particularly successful.
During the Golden Age of Detective Fiction, English-speaking writers dominated the genre, but after the 1940s there was a general waning of English-language output. French authors continued writing into the 1950s and early 1960s, notably Martin Meroy and Boileau-Narcejac, who joined forces to write several locked-room novels. They also co-authored the psychological thrillers which brought them international fame, two of which were adapted for the screen as Vertigo (1954 novel; 1958 film) and Diabolique (1955 film). The most prolific writer during the period immediately following the Golden Age was Japanese: Akimitsu Takagi wrote almost 30 locked-room mysteries, starting in 1949 and continuing to his death in 1995. A number have been translated into English. In Robert van Gulik's mystery novel The Chinese Maze Murders (1951), one of the cases solved by Judge Dee is an example of the locked-room subgenre.
The genre continued into the 1970s and beyond. Bill Pronzini's Nameless Detective novels feature locked-room puzzles. The most prolific creator of impossible crimes is Edward D. Hoch, whose short stories feature a detective, Dr. Sam Hawthorne, whose main role is as a country physician. The majority of Hoch stories feature impossible crimes; one appeared in EQMM every month from May 1973 through January 2008. Hoch's protagonist is a gifted amateur detective who uses pure brainpower to solve his cases.
The French writer Paul Halter, who wrote over 30 novels, almost exclusively in the locked-room genre, has been described as the natural successor to John Dickson Carr.[6] Although strongly influenced by Carr and Agatha Christie,[7] he has a unique writing style featuring original plots and puzzles. A collection of ten of his short stories, entitled The Night of the Wolf, has been translated into English. The Japanese writer Soji Shimada has been writing impossible crime stories since 1981. The first, The Tokyo Zodiac Murders (1981), and the second, Murder in the Crooked House (1982), are the only ones to have been translated into English. The themes of the Japanese novels are far more grisly and violent than those of the more genteel Anglo-Saxons. Dismemberment is a preferred murder method. Despite the gore, most norms of the classic detective fiction novel are strictly followed.
The British TV series Jonathan Creek has a particular 'speciality' for locked-room-murder style mysteries. The eponymous protagonist, Jonathan Creek, designs magic tricks for stage magicians, and is often called on to solve cases where the most important element of the mystery is clearly how the crime was committed, such as a man who allegedly shot himself in a sealed bunker when he had crippling arthritis in his hands, how a woman was shot in a sealed room with no gun and without the window being opened or broken, how a dead body could have vanished from a locked room when the only door was in full view of someone else, etc.
When Rian Johnson released his latest original movie in 2019, it was a massive critical and commercial success. Knives Out brought back the classic locked-room mystery movie with an update for a new era. Daniel Craig was the detective on the case in a film with an all-star cast as he tried to figure out who killed the family patriarch in a locked room with everyone a suspect.
Locked room mysteries go back years, with several acclaimed works of Agatha Christie fiction featuring detectives like Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, and Sherlock Holmes leading the way. Those detectives and more made their way to the big screen, along with some original sleuths, and here are the best locked room mysteries for fans who loved Knives Out.
What separates it from Knives Out is that this movie is a lot more subversive. A group of strangers meets at a motel, each with dark secrets from their past. Through the night, their past comes to the surface and the bigger mystery unveils. When Hemsworth shows up as a cult leader, everything goes off the rails.
Quentin Tarantino made his own locked-room mystery in 2015 with The Hateful Eight. The movie is also his second western, taking place in 1877 when a bounty hunter and Union soldier were headed to Red Rock with three bounty corpses. However, they ended up stuck at an inn during a snowstorm.
While there with another bounty hunter and his live bounty, murders start to take place and everyone there suspects each other. This being a Tarantino movie, the journey there is almost more important than the identity of the killer. However, like Knives Out, Tarantino played it smart and fair with the reveal and created his best mystery movie.
One of the lesser-known locked room mysteries, The Last of Sheila picked up a lot more attention when Last Night in Soho director Edgar Wright chose it as one of his favorites for his TCM guest programming slot. The movie was released in 1973 with Ian McShane, Raquel Welch, James Mason, James Coburn, and more as the leads.
It was almost like a 70s version of Knives Out with an all-star cast and a wickedly smart mystery at hand. The movie takes place on a cruise where the guests take part in a game of secrets. However, when the secrets lead to a murder, everyone onboard is a suspect. It is as close as it gets to what Rian Johnson accomplished with Knives Out and its sequel.
Based on the classic locked-room mystery board game that originated in 1949, the movie Clue came out in 1985 and has since become a beloved cult classic. The film starred Tim Curry, 10 years removed from his groundbreaking performance in The Rocky Horror Picture Show, as the butler Wadsworth.
The film brought in strangers, given the pseudonyms from the game, and a seventh man shows up and blackmails the guests, telling them that he will expose their secrets if they don't kill Wadsworth. After Wadsworth ends up dead, the mystery is on, and the film has three alternate endings - all of which are equally hilarious.
When it comes to locked room mysteries, one that truly lives in the world of the classics is the 2001 film Gosford Park. In an English country house, a murder takes place, and everyone is under suspicion. This includes the Above stairs suspects, the wealthy, and the Below stairs suspects, their servants.
And Then There Were None is an adaptation of an Agatha Christie novel, with the more familiar title of Ten Little Indians. The best cinematic rendition of this classic locked room mystery is the 1945 version. Eight strangers are invited to an isolated island where they are all then accused of murder.
Along with the two servants, newly hired and also suspects, no one can leave the island until the end of the week. The ten then scramble to figure out who is responsible for the murder, and when people start to die, no one knows who they can trust.
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