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Szu-Yen Lin · 2006 · Taiwan · mystery

Three people are killed in one night at Rain House, a mansion in the Taiwanese mountains, each in a locked room.

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Murder in the Crooked House

Sōji Shimada · 1982 · Japan 98% match ★ 3.56 Goodreads · 5,383 ratings
Book 2 of 2 in Detective Mitarai
shares: locked room, mansion, isolated, honkaku · exterior, low-key

At the Ice Floe Mansion, a tilted glass house on the northern tip of Hokkaido, a wealthy industrialist gathers guests for Christmas, and a chauffeur is found stabbed in a locked room.

The Mystery of the Yellow Room

Gaston Leroux · 1907 · France 98% match ★ 3.64 Goodreads · 14,991 ratings
shares: locked room, deductive, mansion, mystery · exterior, cold

Mathilde Stangerson is attacked in a room locked from the inside at her father's chateau outside Paris, and the young reporter Joseph Rouletabille sets out to explain how.

The Labyrinth House Murders

Yukito Ayatsuji · 1988 · Japan 98% match ★ 3.86 Goodreads · 4,858 ratings
Book 3 of 3 in The House Murders
shares: locked room, mansion, isolated, honkaku · exterior, low-key

Four mystery novelists are invited to a reclusive author's birthday at his underground house built as a labyrinth, and he announces a contest whose prize is his fortune.

The Hollow Man

John Dickson Carr · 1935 · US 98% match ★ 3.75 Goodreads · 5,669 ratings
shares: locked room, deductive, puzzle, mystery · exterior, low-key

Professor Grimaud, a lecturer on magic and the occult, is visited at home in London by a masked stranger, and is found shot in his locked study with no one inside and no footprints in the fresh snow.

The 8 Mansion Murders

Takemaru Abiko · 1989 · Japan 98% match ★ 3.37 Goodreads · 206 ratings
shares: locked room, deductive, mansion, honkaku · exterior, low-key

Inspector Kyoya Hayami investigates a man shot with a crossbow in the Eight Mansion, a rich family's house built in the shape of a figure eight.

Hercule Poirot's Christmas

Agatha Christie · 1938 · UK 98% match ★ 3.98 Goodreads · 113,247 ratings
Book 17 of 33 in Hercule Poirot
shares: locked room, deductive, mansion, mystery · exterior, low-key

Simeon Lee, a cruel, rich old man, gathers his family for Christmas at his country house, and on Christmas Eve he is found with his throat cut in a locked room.

The Honjin Murders

Seishi Yokomizo · 1946 · Japan 98% match ★ 3.62 Goodreads · 29,143 ratings
Book 1 of 4 in Kosuke Kindaichi
shares: locked room, deductive, puzzle, mystery · intimate, exterior

In the winter of 1937, on the wedding night of the eldest son of an old family in a village in Okayama, the household wakes to a scream and the notes of a koto, and finds the newlyweds dead in a locked annex surrounded by untouched snow.

The Moai Island Puzzle

Alice Arisugawa · 1989 · Japan 98% match ★ 3.61 Goodreads · 404 ratings
shares: locked room, deductive, puzzle, honkaku · exterior, low-key

Alice Arisugawa and his friends from a university mystery club travel to a remote island dotted with moai statues to solve a treasure puzzle left by a dead man, and the killings begin.

The Red House Mystery

A. A. Milne · 1922 · UK 97% match ★ 3.68 Goodreads · 15,991 ratings
shares: locked room, mansion, puzzle, mystery · exterior, low-key

Antony Gillingham, a gentleman of leisure, arrives at the Red House to visit a friend just as a shot is fired behind a locked office door, and the host's black-sheep brother is found dead inside.

The Plague Court Murders

Carter Dickson · 1934 · US 97% match ★ 3.67 Goodreads · 1,000 ratings
shares: locked room, puzzle, whodunit, mystery · exterior, low-key

At Plague Court, a haunted house in London, a fraudulent psychic is found stabbed in a locked stone hut in the garden, and Sir Henry Merrivale is called in.

Death Among the Undead

Masahiro Imamura · 2017 · Japan 97% match ★ 3.84 Goodreads · 1,019 ratings
shares: locked room, deductive, isolated, mystery · intimate, plain prose

Yuzuru Hamura of his university's Mystery Society and Hiruko Kenzaki, a young woman known for solving cases that baffle the police, join a group of students at an isolated villa just as a zombie outbreak traps them inside.

The Big Bow Mystery

Israel Zangwill · 1892 · UK 97% match ★ 3.26 Goodreads · 983 ratings
shares: locked room, puzzle, whodunit, mystery · exterior, low-key

In a lodging house in Bow, in London's East End, a young idealist is found with his throat cut in a room bolted from the inside, and the retired detective next door is baffled.