| Many of the Golden Age masters of mystery hadtheir own hallmarks. For Christie, it was the leastlikely suspect; for Gardner, the switched weapon;for Queen, the dying man s message; and for JohnDickson Carr, the locked room. A puzzle that has challenged and fascinated bothwriters and readers since Poe. A body is found,murdered, in a hermetically sealed chamber, aroon~ the doors and windows to which are lockedfrom the inside. An impossible crime? Not in thehands of a master, and no writer before or sinceCarr has better explained such miracles. THE THREE COFFINS is a landmark in thelocked room novel. In Chapter 17 the author haltsthe action to have Dr. Gideon Fell deliver the nowfamous "locked room lecture," cataloging thevarious ways to construct a locked room problem.Implicit is the author s challenge to the reader:here s how it could have been done...which methoddid I use? |
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