As if by Magic - Martin Edwards (Ed.) ***(*) Part of the British Library's extensive Crime Classics collection, this largely enjoyable set of short stories features what the subtitle ca...

Review (mystery): As If By Magic - Martin Edwards (Ed.) ***(*) - A mixed but entertaining collection of locked room stories and other examples where the outcome seems impossible from the late 19th century to 1980: brianclegg.blogspot.com/2026/03/as-i... #bookreview #murdermystery #lockedroom

#BookReview: Ruby Falls by @ginphillips.bsky.social (via @atlanticcrime.bsky.social ). #LockedRoom #Mystery More On #WomensFiction End Than #Horror End.

#amreading #historicalfiction #Chattanooga #Atlanta #LookoutMountain #Appalachia #murder #survival #SeeRubyFalls #BookSky 📚💙⌛

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THE ENDING WRITES ITSELF by evelyn clarke (v. e. schwab and @catclarke.bsky.social) releases 4/7/2026 from @harperbooks.bsky.social @librarylovefest.bsky.social #mystery #LockedRoom #satire #writers #publishing #BookSky get your @libraryreads.bsky.social votes in by 3/1!

Checked In, Never Checked Out: Elisa Lam, The Isdal Woman, Solved & Unsolved Hotel Mysteries & More You lock the door. You check the deadbolt. But are you ever really alone in a hotel? We treat hotels as safe havens—sanitized, secure, and documented. But in reality, they are the perfect stage for the impossible. In this episode, we unlock the doors to the most unsettling hotel mysteries of the last century, exploring how these transient spaces allow people to erase their identities, check in under false names, and simply vanish into thin air. From the infamous water tanks of Los Angeles to the frozen remote valleys of Norway, we are tracking the ghosts that checked in but never checked out. We aren't just retelling ghost stories; we are analyzing the forensic nightmares left behind. How does a woman behave erratically in an elevator, seemingly talking to no one, moments before her death? How does a spy—or a tourist—burn all her possessions and die without a name? We deep dive into the cases that defy logic: - The Elisa Lam Disappearance: We breakdown the viral elevator footage from the Cecil Hotel, the theories of the "Elevator Game," and the tragic reality behind the mystery. - The Isdal Woman: The chilling 1970s cold case of a woman with multiple identities, wigs, and encoded diaries found dead in "Death Valley." - The Psychology of Anonymity: Why do people choose hotels to end their stories? - Locked Room Mysteries: How forensic evidence often contradicts the physical reality of a secured room. If you are obsessed with true crime, cold cases, and the eerie feeling of walking down a long, empty hotel corridor, this episode is your wake-up call. We explore the glitches in the matrix where the "safe and secure" routine of hotel life meets the darkest corners of the human experience. Topics: Cecil Hotel, Elisa Lam, Isdal Woman, True Crime, Unsolved Disappearances, Jennifer Fergate. Leave the "Do Not Disturb" sign on—you’re going to want to hear this. 👉 Unlock the mystery and listen now!  

📣 New Podcast! "Checked In, Never Checked Out: Elisa Lam, The Isdal Woman, Solved & Unsolved Hotel Mysteries & More" on @Spreaker #cecilhotel #coldcase #creepy #crimejunkie #elisalam #forensics #horror #hotelmysteries #isdalwoman #lockedroom #missingpersons #mysterypodcast #paranormal #scary

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How to Survive a Horror Story: A Novel

"Welcome to Queen Manor. If you survive... well, that's quite a story to tell."

Sale: $17.99 to $1.99

by Mallory Arnold
Rating: 4.0/5 (761 Reviews)

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The Department Of Queer Complaints (1940) by Carter Dickson Got a problem that no one else can solve? Well, presumably if the A-Team aren’t in town, you might want to pop round and see Colonel March in the Department Of Queer Complaints. Whether it’s the sh…

A fun collection of short stories from the master of the locked room mystery #JohnDicksonCarr #BookSky #LockedRoom

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Perfect review of 'Wake Up Dead Man', which offers highly enjoyable and finely-honed intrigue, comedy, theatricality, and centering of the good and vulnerable, and was the first Knives Out movie to make me cry. #KnivesOut #WakeUpDeadMan #BenoitBlanc #LockedRoom #film

Locked Room Crimes By Wm. Garret CothranCrime is fun. Some will disagree but, in all honesty, people love crime. White collar or blue collar. Serial killers or a guy who snapped. Bank robbers. Bandits. Mafia dons and Ya...

Currently topical with the release of the latest #KnivesOut #film, Wm. Garrett Cothran discusses our enduring fascination with the #LockedRoom #MurderMystery. #DetectiveFiction #Writing #WritingCommunity www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/locked-...

Widow’s Walk by Raemi A Ray is a Feast on These Books Event pick #mystery #lockedroom #mustread #giveaway It’s like the movie Clue set in a robber baron’s locked mansion on Chappaquiddick during a Thanksgiving dinner gone terribly wrong.

Murder’s on the menu…

Attorney Kyra Gibson has a lot on her mind this Thanksgiving.
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Widow’s Walk by Raemi A Ray is a Feast on These Books Event pick #mystery #lockedroom #mustread #giveaway It’s like the movie Clue set in a robber baron’s locked mansion on Chappaquiddick during a Thanksgiving dinner gone terribly wrong.

Widow’s Walk by Raemi A Ray is a Feast on These Books Event pick

It’s like the movie Clue set in a robber baron’s locked mansion on Chappaquiddick during a Thanksgiving dinner gone terribly wrong.

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The Murder At World’s End (2025) by Ross Montgomery Cornwall, 1910. The country is in something of a panic due to the return of Halley’s Comet and the predictions of some astronomers that the planet Earth’s rotation will send it directly through the…

A fantastic locked room mystery to kick off November - A Murder At World's End by Ross Montgomery @mossmontmomery.bsky.social @vikingbooksuk.bsky.social #BookSky #LockedRoom classicmystery.blog/2025/11/02/t...

Trying my hand at bringing my #book cover to life :)

Check it out here: cutt.ly/nr0g6sx2

Fans of #DogMan, The Investigators, and Junie B. Jones are enjoying this new adventurous series.
#booksky #kidlit #mglit #kindleunlimited #kidsbooks #chapterbooks #clue #mystery #lockedroom #illustratedbooks

Widow’s Walk by Raemi A Ray is an Audiobook Frenzy Event pick #mystery #lockedroom #audiobook #giveaway Murder’s on the menu…

Murder’s on the menu…

Attorney Kyra Gibson has a lot on her mind this Thanksgiving.
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Widow’s Walk by Raemi A Ray is an Audiobook Frenzy Event pick #mystery #lockedroom #audiobook #giveaway Murder’s on the menu…

Widow’s Walk by Raemi A Ray is an Audiobook Frenzy Event pick

It’s like the movie Clue set in a robber baron’s locked mansion on Chappaquiddick during a Thanksgiving dinner gone terribly wrong.

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#mystery #lockedroom #audiobook #giveaway #booksky @missraemi.bsky.social

As If By Magic – Locked Room Mysteries And Other Miraculous Crimes (2025) ed Martin Edwards Dr Gideon Fell meets a man in a Somerset valley and learns of a murder that came up from the lake itself. Sir Henry Merrivale visits a house in Goblin Wood where a girl disappears from a cottage th…

Sneak peek of next month's Crime Classic from @britishlibrary.bsky.social and @martinedwardsbooks.bsky.social - find out why it's an absolute must read... #BookSky #LockedRoom #ClassicCrime
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Blizzards & Betrayal: A Holly Hart Valentine Mystery (Holly Hart Mystery Series Book 2) Download the free Kindle app and start reading Kindle books instantly on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required.

Trapped by a blizzard in a mountain lodge, Holly must unmask a killer after a beloved doctor is murdered with her own heirloom. Secrets, lies, and danger—will she survive?
Read now: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FH6ZTFV4
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The House At Devil’s Neck (2025) by Tom Mead Devil’s Neck, a manor house and former field hospital during the Great War, stands at on an outcrop, with the only connecting road one that disappears at high tide. The perfect site, with its memor…

Out tomorrow - A Level results! Oh, and this homage to the classic locked room mystery from @tommeadauthor.bsky.social #BookSky #lockedroom

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Widow’s Walk by Raemi A Ray is a Mystery Suspense Thriller Event pick #mystery #lockedroom #mustread #giveaway It's a dinner party, and death is on the menu.

Widow’s Walk by Raemi A Ray is a Mystery Suspense Thriller Event pick

It's a dinner party, and death is on the menu.

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The Judas Window (1938) by Carter Dickson Avory Hume had told his daughter that he was pleased with her engagement to James Answell, but when Answell is summoned to a meeting with Hume in his study, the man’s attitude seems to have changed…

Finally back in print thanks to @britishlibrary.bsky.social Crime Classics, with an intro from @martinedwardsbooks.bsky.social - the stone cold classic The Judas Window
#BookSky #lockedroom #crimeclassic
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The Ten Teacups (1937) by Carter Dickson THERE WILL BE TEN TEACUPS AT NUMBER 4, BERWICK TERRACE, W. 8 ON WEDNESDAY, JULY 31ST, AT 5 P.M. PRECISELY. THE PRESENCE OF THE METROPOLITAN POLICE IS RESPECTFULLY REQUESTED. Thus was the note, echo…

No other Lettice Cooper reviews as I think there's only one other book that she wrote so until I get back to write this review, here's another Crime Classics review

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Into Thin Air (1928) by Horatio Winslow & Leslie Quirk “Mr Harstein sticks to his story. After binding and gagging him, the loquacious Salem Spook flapped his arms, flew about like a bird and then soard straight out the fifth story window of the hotel.…

Definite one to file under the "Lost Classics" tag and one that needs to be reprinted as soon as possible as it's really good... and really hard to find

#classicmystery #lockedroom #BookSky

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A Murder in Paris by Matthew Blake / The Stranger in Room Six by Jane Corry / Room 706 by Ellie Levenons / The Woman in Cabin 10 and The Woman in Suite 11, both by Ruth Ware

With The Woman in Suite 11 by @ruthwarewriter.bsky.social coming in 11 July 2025, here is a selection of claustrophobic #lockedroom mysteries

(Room 706 by Ellie Levenson is out January 2026)

Any other titles in similar vein we could add?

'Unputdownable', 'brilliant', 'heart-racing', Woman's World book club pick - and now only 99p for UK readers! #TheWeekendGuests is a Kindle monthly deal for June.

Grab your summer read now: tinyurl.com/3mws7scj

#psychologicalthriller #lockedroom #darkacademia

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HOW TO SURVIVE A HORROR STORY by mallory arnold releases 7/8/25 from @poisonedpenpress.bsky.social @sbkslibrary.bsky.social #debut #LockedRoom #SevenAuthors #HungryHauntedHouse #BookSky get your @libraryreads.bsky.social votes in by 6/1!

📚The Last Ferry Out by Andrea Bartz #BookReview #BallantineBooks #WisconsinAuthor #ARCReview #LGBTQIA #WomensFiction #Mystery On a trip to the tropical paradise where her fiancée died, a young woman begins to suspect the death was no accident—and the killer’s still on the island—in this twisty thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Reese's Book Club pick We Were Never Here. Most books mentioned in my reviews can be found at the affiliate links below. (Bookshop.org) (Biblio.com) (Better World Books-US) (Better World Books-UK) (Amazon US) (Kindle Unlimited) (Amazon CA) (

Wisconsin Author alert! On a trip to an island where her fiancée died, a woman suspects the death was no accident. This slow burn suspense novel was excellent! Review--> #Bookthreads #Bookstagram #BookSky #BookBlogger #TheLastFerryOut #ARCReview #NetGalley #LGBTQIA #LockedRoom #BallantineBooks

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PARTY OF LIARS by kelsey cox is available 7/1/25 from @minotaurbooks.bsky.social @macmillanlib.bsky.social #mystery #LockedRoom #birthday #BlackTie #mansion #twists #BookSky get your @libraryreads.bsky.social votes in by 6/1!

Nightshade (2008) by Paul Doherty – a re-read Before becoming King of England, Edward I went on the Ninth Crusade and was poisoned by a member of the Order of Assassins. He survived, and the dagger that failed to kill him became something of a…

A re-read of the book that introduced me to one of my favourite writers and ignited a passion for history - Nightshade by Paul Doherty. NB also includes a cracking locked room murder! #BookSky #historymystery #lockedroom

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DEATH ON THE ISLAND by eliza reid comes out 5/13/25 from @poisonedpen.bsky.social @sbkslibrary.bsky.social #mystery #LockedRoom #iceland #RemoteIsland #storm #dinner #BookSky get your @libraryreads.bsky.social votes in by 4/1!

Science Fiction, Locked Room Mysteries, and the Joy of Literary Games Let me be very obvious at the start and say: a murder victim can’t tell you who the killer is. Locked-room mysteries are puzzling because the only person you’re sure was in the room is the one pers…

Science Fiction Locked Room Mysteries, and the Joy of Literary Games 📚🪐
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The Ten Teacups (1937) by Carter Dickson THERE WILL BE TEN TEACUPS AT NUMBER 4, BERWICK TERRACE, W. 8 ON WEDNESDAY, JULY 31ST, AT 5 P.M. PRECISELY. THE PRESENCE OF THE METROPOLITAN POLICE IS RESPECTFULLY REQUESTED. Thus was the note, echo…

New review - out now from @britishlibrary.bsky.social , the utter classic #lockedroom mystery, The Ten Teacups by Carter Dickson aka John Dickson Carr. Note, it's a proper locked room mystery and one of the very best. #BookSky #ClassicMystery

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