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Just for the sake of infuriating completeness I have to mention The Christmas Holiday Mystery by Geoffrey Trease. It doesn't appear on the Goodreads database and I don't want to punish myself by putting it there. It was published in the 1930s and the public lost contact with it before World War Two. In the story a group of young men and schoolboys go on holiday to a remote hotel in the English Lake District and end up cut off by a heavy snowfall. As it was written for a young audience there isn't a murder; something is stolen which means that someone in the isolated community must be the thief. I read it at least thirty years ago and goodness knows why I remember it. However, it fits in with this list. So, as far as I know it has never been reprinted and a copy of the first edition will not be cheap - best of luck if you want to read it.

Hmmm... this one sounds interesting. I've never heard of this one before and searching for it on Google does not yield a plethora of results. Seems like another one of those lost Golden Age detective stories (even if written for younger readers) just waiting to be unearthed one day for more people to enjoy. It's always intriguing to hear of a juvenile mystery with a locked-room or impossible mystery within it. Thanks for the recommendation!

JDL wrote: "Hmmm... this one sounds interesting. I've never heard of this one before and searching for it on Google does not yield a plethora of results. Seems like another one of those lost Golden Age detecti..."

There is a short review of the book on the website treaseproject.livejournal.com. Based on what I can remember the reviewer sums up the basic idea of the plot but plays down the nature of the story as a crime thriller. She fails to mention the reason for the characters having to solve the mystery themselves is that they are snowed in and completely cut off from the outside world and not all of the characters trust one another.

Since there's voting happening on the new locked room library, I became curious if Goodreads had a list for the old one and searched this up. JDL, I enjoyed reading many of your comments here.

I don't agree with everything (such as Decagon or Chinese Orange being locked rooms/impossible crimes), but it's a good list, and I appreciate it having modern examples like Tom Mead, James Scott Byrnside, and LRI's works.