I actually already chose And Then There Were None as my locked room mystery, but with all these other examples, I'm wavering a little bit. The Moonstone sounds very interesting, and the fact that it might be the first locked room mystery in fiction is extremely tempting.
Thanks for all these posts, you two! I'm so pumped for Halloween Bingo!
Dame Agatha was a dab hand at the locked room mysteries. Some others to contemplate from her series: Murder on the Orient Express; Towards Zero; The Sittaford Mystery, I think they all qualify. Of course, you've already mentioned the pinnacle of all locked room mysteries And Then There Were None.
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There are a few Sherlock Holmes stories that might appeal, too.
The Sign of Four
The Adventure of the Speckled Band
The Adventure of the Resident Patient
It might end up being mine too. I'm trying to keep re-reads to a minimum (because, TBR) but I don't own much in the creepy crawly area and nothing I haven't already read, and it's never a hardship to re-read Sherlock. :)
The first-ever locked room mystery was "The Yellow Room" by Gaston Leroux.
Speaking of whom, "The Phantom of the Opera" probably qualifies for *something* on this bingo card, too, though not "Locked Room" ... "Dark and Stormy Night" for sure, but maybe somethng else as well?
a mystery where someone was locked in a room as a central plot point - hence thinking The Yellow Wallpaper was a possible fit (it's OK, it's my buddy read).
Haha, with you Libromancer's Apprentic and Book Cupidity, I took this literal and was thinking a mysterious locked room that people were curious/scared to know what was inside/happening in there.
But I found a Georgette Heyer locked room mystery now, so excited I was wrong :)
So, the legend of Bluebeard could count as a locked room mystery, by that definition. One of the fun things about this is the way it's making me think differently about familiar stories and story devices!
I was thinking that Murder on the Orient Express could work for locked door mystery too, couldn't it? I just recently read it, so I'll choose something else, though. I am planning on using And The There Were None (audiobook) for the Dark and Stormy night square.
It totally could fit for that - but if you're looking for a different Agatha to try for locked room mystery, I strongly recommend OBD's suggestion of The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.
That's the one I'm going to use. I just bought a used copy containing it (and four other AC books) on amazon. I just recently read MotOE, so I decided not to reread it and use it for the bingo card. I just thought if someone else wanted to...
I really loved it too, and am sad I won't be using it for the Halloween Bingo! I have a friend who recently decided she wanted to do the bingo too...I might recommend it to her.
Yeah, it looks like that one would have to be bought used on amazon. It isn't one of Carr's books that has been published for kindle by Open Road. I was going to read it until I realized it would be so hard to find!
Thanks for all these posts, you two! I'm so pumped for Halloween Bingo!
:D
There are a few Sherlock Holmes stories that might appeal, too.
The Sign of Four
The Adventure of the Speckled Band
The Adventure of the Resident Patient
Speaking of whom, "The Phantom of the Opera" probably qualifies for *something* on this bingo card, too, though not "Locked Room" ... "Dark and Stormy Night" for sure, but maybe somethng else as well?
But I found a Georgette Heyer locked room mystery now, so excited I was wrong :)
I've never read it but it sounds good
I have a book with the word 'fall' in the title that I'm going to use for that square.