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  • He has also written a blackly comic locked-room mystery novel, Now You See It ..., aptly dedicated to Robert Bloch, and the suspense novels 7 Steps to Midnight and Hunted Past Reason.

    Issue 0.039 z0mbieastronaut 2009

  • One of the first Sherlock Holmes stories, "The Sign of the Four," also features a locked-room mystery.

    Book World: Patrick Anderson reviews 'The Devotion of Suspect X' Patrick Anderson 2011

  • STATION: graphic novel locked-room mystery on the Int'l Space ...

    Boing Boing 2009

  • He has also written a blackly comic locked-room mystery novel, Now You See It ..., aptly dedicated to Robert Bloch, and the suspense novels 7 Steps to Midnight and Hunted Past Reason.

    Feb. 25th, 2009 - Issue 0.039 z0mbieastronaut 2009

  • One of the first Sherlock Holmes stories, "The Sign of the Four," also features a locked-room mystery.

    Book World: Patrick Anderson reviews 'The Devotion of Suspect X' Patrick Anderson 2011

  • STATION: graphic novel locked-room mystery on the Int'l Space ...

    Boing Boing 2009

  • We're not pursuing high art here: With its determined detective, red-herring clues, over-defined eccentric suspects and tidy puzzle plot a spin on a locked-room mystery, Christie's 1952 thriller is a cleverly built entertainment, robust enough to have run continually in London for more than half a century.

    1st Stage's 'Mousetrap' is a whodunit worth catching Celia Wren 2010

  • This plot involves a locked-room murder mystery that must be solved by our righteous, haint hero, Will le Fey.

    REVIEW: 2008 Hugo Award Short Fiction Nominees 2008

  • In "The Garbage Chute", from December 15th, 1949, they even had a locked-room mystery.

    Radio: Dragnet Zen Tiger 2010

  • A classic locked-room murder mystery, named by Edward D. Hoch as his favourite impossible crime novel.

    Archive 2009-10-01 Steve 2009

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