Mystery

A corpse. A locked room. No way in or out. The locked room mystery is the purest distillation of detective fiction—an impossible crime that demands a logical solution. It’s also a covenant between author and reader more sacred than any other genre. This is fair-play detective fiction, where the writer makes an implicit promise: You have all the clues you need. The solution is possible. I am not cheating. Break that promise, and your reader will never forgive you. ...