The “locked-room” or “impossible crime” mystery is a subgenre of detective fiction in which a crime (almost always murder) is committed in circumstances under which it was seemingly impossible for the perpetrator to commit the crime or evade detection in the course of getting in and out of the crime scene. The crime in question typically involves a crime scene with no indication as to how the intruder could have entered or left, for example: a locked room. Following other conventions of classic detective fiction, the reader is normally presented with the puzzle and all of the clues, and is encouraged to solve the mystery before the solution is revealed in a dramatic climax.

To investigators of the crime, the prima facie impression almost invariably is that the perpetrator has vanished into thin air. The need for a rational explanation for the crime is what drives the protagonist to look beyond these appearances and solve the puzzle.

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I’m LOCKED inside The Hidden History Project...”so hidden that no-one can find it.” REAL LIFE yt quote there.

No one wants to find it?

Heyho.

Gaston wrote Phantom of the Opera also.

HE GETS IT!

Oh. And. Louise Brooks starred in The Canary Murder Case, another locked room mystery. But her voice was dubbed by another actress.

HISTORY REPEATETH!!!