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The Murders in the Rue Morgue
Edgar Allan Poe
1841
The Three Coffins
John Dickson Carr · 1935
222 pages
On a foggy London evening a professor is shot dead inside a room locked from within, with fresh snow outside showing no footprints. Dr. Gideon Fell investigates the impossible killing and, along the way, explains how a locked-room murder can be done.
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Locked Room Mystery, Eccentric Detective, Twist Ending, Mistaken Identity, Faked Death
