A locked room mystery is one in which a crime -- a murder--
has been
committed in a locked room with no obvious way for the
murderer to have
gotton in or out. Therefore, a semingly impossible
crime.
Although I am sure I will probably garner more rotton eggs
for elaborating,
(maybe not), Edgar Allen Poes "Murder in the Rue Morgue", was
the first
impossible-crime locked room detective story.
Anita Hoffman
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