Talk:Locked room mystery
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Added a lot of exclusive content from Crime fiction in an attempt to shorten, regularise, organise and redistribute that overtly lengthy article. Hence, this article may be incomplete and appear a bit unencylopediac. May require attention chance 10:09, Dec 19, 2003 (UTC)
Anyone reckon it's worth adding the UK TV series Johnathan Creek to the article? Just about every week is based around a locked-room mystery of some sort (and there's the interesting aspect of the eponymous crime-solver being a magic consultant to stage and TV).Sockatume 15:28, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC) Done. In future you might want to make fairly undisputable changes like this straightaway.--Hugo Hadlow 00:04, 24 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- I don't remember a whole lot about the series, so I didn't really feel like diving in. Cheers tho. Sockatume 01:14, 24 Oct 2004 (UTC)
I think the first "Tooms" story in the X-Files TV series is like a locked room mystery. Doberdog 10:34, 8 June 2006 (UTC) Doberdog
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[edit] Kiaros
Having read the story by Baum (Suicide of Kiaros), I don't really see it as a "hate crime", considering he perpetrated it out of desparation. 68.39.174.238 17:58, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Rules
... "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" (1841). The story contains Poe's statement of the "rules" of the locked-room mystery. - Where? Aliter 18:12, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
- Why not read the article "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", wherein you will find this information? I added an explicit pointer to aid the slow reader. Ortolan88 20:07, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] True Crime
I must say that the recently added "true crime" section sure does read like it was written by an old-fashioned journalist:
- "Surely all the devious methods described above are the products of over-heated and diabolically cunning minds and could never actually happen in real life?"
- "It transpired . . . "
- "Another baffling puzzler . . . "
Since there is not a link to George Colvocoresses my interest in the authorship rises. Since the contributor User:Owenburns has no actual page, my interest in the authorship rises more. Since I was unfairly accused of plagiarism on the grounds that something I did was "too well written to be original" I would hardly say the same of someone else, but I sure would like to know where this stuff came from. Fascinating addition, by the way, and at least George Colvocoresses was really murdered, so I could be full of it here, but that's a big chunk of unattributed stuff all written in the same old-fashioned style. Ortolan88
- It's a nice read, but the style is less encyclopedic and more like it was taken from a book of "true crime" stories. A Google search finds nothing but Wikipedia when searching for the sentences, so I can't conclusively say that it's a copyvio but it is pretty darn fishy. --TexasDex 06:06, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
I can only find one source for the Morton Conroy story, a semi-fictional book, What the Corpse Revealed by Hugh Miller. Miller writes that parts of his book are "products of the author's imagination and/or have been fictionalised". Can anyone find another citiation?
Also, I'm teased by the last sentence: "The technique was later used in a fictional locked-room mystery published in the UK and the US." Can anyone cite the title or author?
Elmore Judge 16:49, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Kindaichi Case Files
I would very much like to contact the lady/gentleman who inserted a reference to the Kinaichi Case Files, hitherto unknown to me.
Owenburns
[edit] How about Long Dark Teatime of the Soul
Dirk Gently's client in The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul is found decapitated in a locked and barricaded basement room, his head spinning on a record turntable several feet from his seated body. It turns out that he was decapitated by a demon that hid behind a molecule until the cops left. But because of the supernatural component, does this count? ChristinaDunigan 01:58, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
