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Locked Room

The purest puzzle in mystery fiction. A victim, an impossible crime scene, and a list of suspects who couldn't have done it.

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    And Then There Were None

    Agatha Christie · Mystery & Thriller

    First there were ten--a curious assortment of strangers summoned as weekend guests to a private island off the coast of Devon.

    psychological thriller · closed circle · locked room · cat and mouse · twist ending

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    The Library After Dark

    Ande Pliego · Mystery & Thriller

    A bookseller must escape the infamously haunted library that holds her darkest secrets, but with a murderer in her tour group, escaping alive is not…

    locked room · psychological thriller · haunted setting · gothic atmosphere · twist ending

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    The Murder at World's End

    Ross Montgomery · Mystery & Thriller

    Knives Out meets Downton Abbey! Secrets, murder, and mayhem collide as this unlikely sleuthing duo—an under-butler and a foul-mouthed…

    locked room · closed circle

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    Gideon the Ninth

    Tamsyn Muir · Fantasy

    "The Emperor needs necromancers.

    dark academia · gothic atmosphere · locked room · found family

    🌶️🌶️🌶️Moderate — some open-door scenes, not the focus