Books like The Big Bow Mystery
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.
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The Judas Window
James Answell is found unconscious in a locked study beside the body of his prospective father-in-law, shot through with an arrow, and Sir Henry Merrivale has to prove at the Old Bailey that he didn't do it.
The Hollow Man
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 Plague Court Murders
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.
The Red House Mystery
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 Mystery of the Yellow Room
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.
Hercule Poirot's Christmas
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.
Murder in the Crooked House
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.
Death in the House of Rain
Three people are killed in one night at Rain House, a mansion in the Taiwanese mountains, each in a locked room.
The Ginza Ghost
Twelve impossible-crime stories from the golden age of the Japanese mystery in the 1930s.
The Word Is Murder
Diana Cowper, a wealthy widow, arranges her own funeral and is strangled six hours later, and Daniel Hawthorne, a sacked detective now consulting for the police, asks Anthony Horowitz to write a book about him solving it.
The Honjin Murders
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 Murder at the Vicarage
When the widely disliked Colonel Protheroe is found shot in the vicar's study in the village of St Mary Mead, there is no shortage of suspects, and the vicar's elderly neighbour, Miss Jane Marple, has her own ideas.