The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle
1892
Books with the “Locked Room Mystery” trope
A crime happens in a room that is apparently sealed from the inside, with no way in or out.
Plot twists · Locked Room Mystery
Books with this trope
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
Edgar Allan Poe
1841
The Innocence of Father Brown
G. K. Chesterton
1911
Murder on the Orient Express
Agatha Christie
1934
The Three Coffins
John Dickson Carr
1935
The Name of the Rose
Umberto Eco
1980
The Mysterious Affair at Styles
Agatha Christie
1920
The Red House Mystery
A. A. Milne
1922
The Leavenworth Case
Anna Katharine Green
1878
Magpie Murders
Anthony Horowitz
2016
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A respectable person hides a second, darker self or lives two opposite lives.
Portal Fantasy
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