Locked Room Mysteries

Recommended Reading - Authors

The following is a list of recommended books based on the locked room or impossible crime platform
The locked room mystery has long been a favourite with mystery writers, indeed one of the earliest detective fiction titles
was so based. Poe's Murders in the Rue Morgue (1841) was not perhaps the most ingenious locked room mystery but the die was cast
The author most associated with the genre is John Dickson Carr who devoted himself almost entirely to the impossible crime
There are of course many others and we have a sample list of recommended titles below
For further study we recommend acquiring a copy of Locked Room Murders and Other Impossible Crimes by Robert Adey
We always welcome suggestions for additions to the list - authors name hyperlinked takes you to their dedicated page

Author	Title
Catherine Aird	His Burial Too
Margery Allingham	Flowers for the Judge
Peter Antony	The Woman in the Wardrobe
Anthony Berkeley	The Layton Court Mystery
Christianna Brand	Suddenly at His Residence
Leo Bruce	Case for Three detectives
John Dickson Carr	The Hollow man & other many titles
Agatha Christie	Murder in Mesopotamia
Edmund Crispin	The Moving Toyshop
Freeman Wills Crofts	The End of Andrew Harrison
Carter Dickson	The Judas Window
Michael Gilbert	Close Quarters
C Daly King	Careless Corpse
Gaston Leroux	The Mystery of the Yellow Room
Philip Macdonald	The Crime Conductor
Helen McCloy	Through a Glass Darkly
Beverley Nichols	The Moonflower
Anthony Oliver	The Elberg Collection
Ellery Queen	The Chinese Orange Mystery
Clayton Rawson	Death from a Top Hat
John Rhode	Tragedy at the Unicorn
John Sladek	Invisible Green
Clifford Witting	Catt Out of the Bag
Anthony Wynne	Numerous titles