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One by One (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as locked-room)
avg rating 3.72 — 231,419 ratings — published 2020
And Then There Were None (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as locked-room)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,727,697 ratings — published 1939
The Guest List (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 28 times as locked-room)
avg rating 3.79 — 1,371,290 ratings — published 2020
The Hunting Party (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as locked-room)
avg rating 3.59 — 385,233 ratings — published 2018
The Hollow Man (Dr. Gideon Fell, #6)
by (shelved 23 times as locked-room)
avg rating 3.75 — 5,671 ratings — published 1935
Daisy Darker (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as locked-room)
avg rating 3.76 — 321,145 ratings — published 2022
An Unwanted Guest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as locked-room)
avg rating 3.73 — 170,155 ratings — published 2018
Shiver (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as locked-room)
avg rating 3.76 — 26,789 ratings — published 2021
The Decagon House Murders (House Murders, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as locked-room)
avg rating 3.76 — 25,611 ratings — published 1987
The Honjin Murders (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as locked-room)
avg rating 3.62 — 29,164 ratings — published 1946
The Midnight Feast (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as locked-room)
avg rating 3.57 — 314,486 ratings — published 2024
Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10)
by (shelved 16 times as locked-room)
avg rating 4.19 — 777,298 ratings — published 1934
The Mystery of the Yellow Room (Joseph Rouletabille, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as locked-room)
avg rating 3.64 — 14,994 ratings — published 1907
Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as locked-room)
avg rating 3.45 — 75,876 ratings — published 2022
The Sanatorium (Detective Elin Warner, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as locked-room)
avg rating 3.36 — 211,005 ratings — published 2021
The Woman in Cabin 10 (Lo Blacklock #1)
by (shelved 14 times as locked-room)
avg rating 3.71 — 821,882 ratings — published 2016
The Tokyo Zodiac Murders (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as locked-room)
avg rating 3.86 — 14,364 ratings — published 1981
You Are Fatally Invited (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as locked-room)
avg rating 3.56 — 22,118 ratings — published 2025
The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as locked-room)
avg rating 3.77 — 517,699 ratings — published 2018
Death in the Family (Shana Merchant #1)
by (shelved 12 times as locked-room)
avg rating 3.64 — 5,512 ratings — published 2020
The Escape Room (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as locked-room)
avg rating 3.81 — 47,984 ratings — published 2018
No Exit (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 12 times as locked-room)
avg rating 3.97 — 230,720 ratings — published 2017
The Paris Apartment (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as locked-room)
avg rating 3.64 — 767,022 ratings — published 2022
The Murder at World's End (Stockingham & Pike, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as locked-room)
avg rating 4.00 — 20,867 ratings — published 2025
Six Wakes (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as locked-room)
avg rating 3.83 — 21,334 ratings — published 2017
With a Vengeance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as locked-room)
avg rating 3.37 — 84,222 ratings — published 2025
The Chamber (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as locked-room)
avg rating 3.48 — 5,017 ratings — published 2024
One Perfect Couple (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as locked-room)
avg rating 3.61 — 178,235 ratings — published 2024
Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect (Ernest Cunningham, #2)
by (shelved 9 times as locked-room)
avg rating 3.82 — 100,066 ratings — published 2023
Dead of Winter (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as locked-room)
avg rating 3.76 — 57,522 ratings — published 2023
Murder in the Crooked House (Kiyoshi Mitarai, #2)
by (shelved 9 times as locked-room)
avg rating 3.56 — 5,384 ratings — published 1982
Malice (Detective Kaga, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as locked-room)
avg rating 4.06 — 40,474 ratings — published 1996
The Judas Window (Sir Henry Merrivale, #7)
by (shelved 9 times as locked-room)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,140 ratings — published 1938
The Search Party (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as locked-room)
avg rating 3.70 — 11,194 ratings — published 2024
Suddenly a Murder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as locked-room)
avg rating 3.67 — 9,068 ratings — published 2023
Under Lock & Skeleton Key (Secret Staircase Mystery, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as locked-room)
avg rating 3.51 — 5,773 ratings — published 2022
In the Dark (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as locked-room)
avg rating 4.03 — 31,710 ratings — published 2019
The Big Bow Mystery (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as locked-room)
avg rating 3.26 — 983 ratings — published 1892
The Night of the Storm (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as locked-room)
avg rating 3.15 — 3,412 ratings — published 2024
Murder on the Christmas Express (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as locked-room)
avg rating 3.14 — 16,312 ratings — published 2022
Five Survive (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as locked-room)
avg rating 4.07 — 322,194 ratings — published 2022
The Bones of the Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as locked-room)
avg rating 3.65 — 3,415 ratings — published 2023
The Christmas Murder Game (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as locked-room)
avg rating 3.35 — 31,581 ratings — published 2021
Death and the Conjuror (A Spector Locked-Room Mystery, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as locked-room)
avg rating 3.51 — 3,928 ratings — published 2022
The Maid (Molly the Maid, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as locked-room)
avg rating 3.74 — 744,231 ratings — published 2022
Stranded (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as locked-room)
avg rating 4.10 — 32,691 ratings — published 2021
Guess Who (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as locked-room)
avg rating 3.38 — 6,339 ratings — published 2018
The Crooked Hinge (Dr. Gideon Fell, #8)
by (shelved 7 times as locked-room)
avg rating 3.79 — 1,288 ratings — published 1937
The Ending Writes Itself (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as locked-room)
avg rating 3.44 — 42,245 ratings — published 2026
The Inheritance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as locked-room)
avg rating 3.65 — 17,020 ratings — published 2025
“In an extraordinarily bold move, Carr allows Fell in chapter seventeen [in, The Hollow Man by John Dickson Carr (1935)] to address the reader directly, giving a disquisition on the lockedroom mystery that has often been reprinted as an essay on the subject: ‘We’re in a detective story, and we don’t fool the reader by pretending we’re not . . . Let’s candidly glory in the noblest pursuit possible to characters in a book . . . When I say that a story about a hermetically sealed chamber is more interesting than anything else in detective fiction, that’s merely prejudice. I like my murders to be frequent, gory, and grotesque. I like some vividness of colour and imagination flashing out of my plot, since I cannot find a story enthralling solely on the grounds that it sounds as though it might really have happened.’ Fell proceeds to offer an analysis of different types of locked-room scenarios so impressively detailed that it has never been surpassed.”
― The Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books
― The Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books
“I am entirely at your service, Sir Henry. And I feel sure you will have no reason to complain of my frankness.'
H.M. blinked. 'Uh-huh. I was afraid of that.
Son, frankness is a virtue only when you're talkin' about yourself, and then it's a nuisance.
Besides, it's an impossibility. There's only one kind of person who's ever really willing to tell the truth about himself, and that's the kind they certify and shove in the bug-house. And when a person says he intends to be frank about other people, all it means is that he's goin' to give 'em a kick in the eye...”
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H.M. blinked. 'Uh-huh. I was afraid of that.
Son, frankness is a virtue only when you're talkin' about yourself, and then it's a nuisance.
Besides, it's an impossibility. There's only one kind of person who's ever really willing to tell the truth about himself, and that's the kind they certify and shove in the bug-house. And when a person says he intends to be frank about other people, all it means is that he's goin' to give 'em a kick in the eye...”
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