Closed rooms. 6 police mysteries to investigate

Days of seclusion. And there are already a few. Many, perhaps, in closed roomsbut I hope not because I have fallen ill. We are tired also by the broken routine, but we may have taken the opportunity to read. And maybe one of these has fallen. Mysteries and crimes in locked rooms is a resource own of Police genre and it has been cultivated by many names and in different ways and stories. Let's take a look at these 6 who sign classics like Agatha Christie, gaston Leroux or John Dickson carr.

Closed rooms

Much used resource of the genre, the crimes (or crimes) occurred in closed spaces, read rooms, but also houses, large mansions, apartments or other rooms and places. For seeming unsolvable o impossible having been committed and by the straight of writers and readers by make sense of them or discover your solution. These are some chosen titles.

The locked room - Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö

Classics and pioneers of the contemporary nordic crime novel, this Swedish couple created the inspector Martin Beck and put it in this case. And it is that in a fully closed apartment inside, a corpse with Shooting in the chest, but where there Ningún weapon.

The mystery of the mandarin - Ellery Queen

Written in 1934, is one of the titles most relevant about the topic. We also find a corpseskull crushed and clothes inside out, in a locked room where all furniture are placed in the opposite side to which they were in the beginning.

The mystery of the yellow room - Gaston Leroux

One of the first titles. Leroux wrote it in 1907. The journalist stars Roulette, alter ego of its creator, who does not investigate the crime scene, and when he does it is to discover the murderer. The events take place in a castle stay of Glandier, called the yellow room, where the door is closed by insideoy the only one window what's up there bars.

The mysterious case of Styles - Christie Agatha

La first novel fiction of the great British lady of mystery, which was published in 1920 first in America. Christie's most classic characters appear: the Belgian detective Hercules Poirot and his faithful friend and companion the captain Hastings.

And we have the usual crime in an English mansion in Essex, Styles mansion, where the millionaire Emily Inglethorp is found dead on the bed in his room, the doors of which were locked from the inside. It seems like a natural death, but the doctor the family suspects that they have poisoned.

The hollow man - John Dickson Carr

Dickson Carr is known as "The master of the locked room" and he is one of the greats of the genre in terms of creating stories where they are resolved seemingly unsolvable crimes. In this novel, also published in the years 30 and considered as one of the best, we have up to of . Uno happened in a closed room where you can see the murderer entering, but not leaving, and other in a lonely street before two witnesses in reality they don't see anything.

Is the sixth who starred in the most popular detective of the four he created, Dr. Gideon Fel, un crossing or compendium both of Sherlock Holmes (Carr was Arthur Conan Doyle's first biographer) and the father Brown, of his admired GK Chesterton, which also touched on the subject.

Murder at the Darwin mansion - Marion Harvey

Marion Harvey was the pseudonym with whom he signed his works a writer and whose his real identity is still unknown. And this novel was published in 1922. In it we also have the crime of a millionaire in his office, where the only suspect seems to be his Woman, although she insists on her innocence.

Again a witty detective buff along the lines of Sherlock Holmes, Graydon mckelvie, He reels the keys until he finds the murderer, who perhaps is not either.