1 locked room containing 1 corpse. 1 barred window. Key was on the inside, still in the lock: a silvery blob on the end, the 1 clue. It was a poky little room, a garret from another age, perched atop four twisting, crumbling flights of stairs. Climbing up to it, you had the sense that …
Something to think about over the long weekend: 1 locked room containing 1 corpse. 1 barred window. Key was on the inside, still in the lock: a silvery blob on the end, the 1 clue. Solution here.
My thanks to Barry Forshaw – author of, amongst other titles, The Rough Guide to Crime Fiction, and biographer of Stieg Larsson – for kindly inviting me onto his crime fiction website, Crimetime, to talk about my forthcoming novel, The Cleansing Flames. You can read my piece here. The book’s out on May 19, but …
Prof Mirabilis the inventor tested his new birdcage lock in an empty locked room. When he came back the cage was open & the bird was out. No murder in this Twistery. No crime of any sort, unless we count a crime against commonsense. For a man with so many letters after his name (BSc, …
Prof Mirabilis the inventor tested his new birdcage lock in an empty locked room. When he came back the cage was open & the bird was out.