Books like Locked Room Puzzles

Loved Locked Room Puzzles by Martin H. Greenberg? Here are 7 books with the same pull, and why each one fits.

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1The Hollow Man
The Hollow Man
John Dickson Carr
A classic locked-room novel in which a murder appears to happen in a sealed study with no way in or out.
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2The Judas Window
The Judas Window
John Dickson Carr
Another impossible-crime novel by Carr, built around a murder in a room whose only access seems to be a window.
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3The Mystery of the Yellow Room
The Mystery of the Yellow Room
Gaston Leroux
An early locked-room mystery in which a woman is attacked in a sealed bedroom, and the investigation turns on how the attacker got in.
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4The Murders in the Rue Morgue
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
Edgar Allan Poe
The short story that founded the detective form, in which a double murder takes place in a room locked from the inside.
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5The Invisible Man
The Invisible Man
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
A Father Brown story in which a man seems to vanish from a place where he was seen only moments before, and the solution is a matter of perception.
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6The Roman Hat Mystery
The Roman Hat Mystery
Ellery Queen
An early Queen novel in which a murder in a New York theatre district is solved by close reading of clues and testimony.
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7The Crooked Hinge
The Crooked Hinge
John Dickson Carr
A puzzle novel about a death that looks like an accident and a mechanism that Carr uses to test the reader's attention to physical detail.
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