Nicole Morin: A Real Locked Room Mystery? In an elevator?
Jun 1, 2024 16:48:32 GMT -5
Post by Inimda on Jun 1, 2024 16:48:32 GMT -5
Locked Room Mystery
The locked room mystery has always held a special fascination for suspense fans.
Perhaps the most popular—and earliest—of them is Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” in which a mother and daughter are murdered—the mother so brutally ravaged she is almost decapitated and the daughter strangled and stuffed up a chimney—in a room locked from the inside and otherwise inaccessible.
www.criminalelement.com/murder-in-the-locked-room-kristin-centorcelli-thriller-detective-traditional-edgar-allan-poe-agatha-christie-john-dickson-carr-ellery-queen-ngaio-marsh/
Until now, the Locked Room Mystery has been mostly relegated to fiction. But here, you have a crime in a veritable Locked Room.
The victim is found dead in the room and the room is locked with a key that did not turn up for 10 years. Only the "sailor" and the victim apparently were last inside.
But somehow, another suspect was put into the room who was later given a pardon and it's generally assumed that he was innocent. This was after the key turned up and was found to have been in possession of a "sailor" who had disappeared.
Without getting into the details, we can take a step back and look at the whole picture. The beauty of a Locked Room Mystery is how it encapsulates everything in a nutshell and how the enclosure acts to compress the big picture and makes it easier to point out the more important issues at play.
tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Analysis/LockedRoomMystery
"The solution to a Locked Room Mystery can be one of several types, as typologised by John Dickson Carr in his novel The Hollow Man/The Three Coffins.
The locked room mystery has always held a special fascination for suspense fans.
Perhaps the most popular—and earliest—of them is Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” in which a mother and daughter are murdered—the mother so brutally ravaged she is almost decapitated and the daughter strangled and stuffed up a chimney—in a room locked from the inside and otherwise inaccessible.
www.criminalelement.com/murder-in-the-locked-room-kristin-centorcelli-thriller-detective-traditional-edgar-allan-poe-agatha-christie-john-dickson-carr-ellery-queen-ngaio-marsh/
Until now, the Locked Room Mystery has been mostly relegated to fiction. But here, you have a crime in a veritable Locked Room.
The victim is found dead in the room and the room is locked with a key that did not turn up for 10 years. Only the "sailor" and the victim apparently were last inside.
But somehow, another suspect was put into the room who was later given a pardon and it's generally assumed that he was innocent. This was after the key turned up and was found to have been in possession of a "sailor" who had disappeared.
Without getting into the details, we can take a step back and look at the whole picture. The beauty of a Locked Room Mystery is how it encapsulates everything in a nutshell and how the enclosure acts to compress the big picture and makes it easier to point out the more important issues at play.
tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Analysis/LockedRoomMystery
"The solution to a Locked Room Mystery can be one of several types, as typologised by John Dickson Carr in his novel The Hollow Man/The Three Coffins.