Secret room crime refers to a series of means by which the murderer uses a series of means to make all the evidence of the victim's murder point to the enclosed space where the victim is located. There is no second party, and there is no method of killing that is not the victim's suicide. Therefore, the Chamber of Secrets has become the most representative of "impossible crime".
Today, I will recommend you the classic secret room theme works in 4 speculative novels.
1. The Mystery of the Tomb – Agatha Christie
The "Queen of Reasoning" Grandma wrote the Chamber of Secrets case. The surveillance chamber that happened in the mesopotamian plains, the strong Egyptian style and travel atmosphere - the archaeological team issued a life case, no outsiders entered the courtyard in full view, no one entered the room, and the murder weapon could not be found at the scene... The technique and the murderer are not difficult for today's readers to guess, because they have been copied by countless works in later generations. Therefore, the classic works must be seen early, otherwise it is easy to be spoiled by later works, especially the three giants of Edgar Allan Poe Conan Doyle Gold, which are either directly copied or clearly spoiled in other novels - "Isn't this the xx technique in "xxx"? ”...... This chamber of entry-level readers can try to challenge it, and its place lies in its groundbreaking nature.
2. "The Coffin of Winter" - Sun Qinwen (Chicken Ding)
In this story, the "King of Chinese Secret Rooms" Chicken Ding brings readers three pure Benge Secret Rooms (from the bizarre degree of its tricks, it should be more classified into the category of new Ben Ge), originality and brain holes are quite brilliant, and some good tricks and false solutions are added to the real solution flipped, a rare domestic masterpiece. But the hard wounds of this work are also obvious, that is, the awkward writing that can't be done... Slightly blunt background setting, facialized characters are almost purely used to serve the plot, exaggerated and false dialogue. This is also the most overlooked problem of many domestic "pure" reasoning writers. The three secret room techniques of this work are remarkable, and the form is innovative enough, but in terms of practical feasibility, there are more or less problems, and the background setting in Shanghai also makes the plot not only a little dog bloody, but also a little hard wound in the modus operandi. However, this is still an excellent work of secret room reasoning.
3.Sha shaya crime--Shoji Koda
The supreme masterpiece of the architectural flow chamber, the classic work of the new Benge school, Ayatsuji Yukito's "Museum Series", is deeply influenced by this work. Many times the so-called secret room is a secret passage in the room that the reader does not know, and "Crime in the Leaning House" is completely different. This is a work that must be read in physical books, otherwise the reader will not be able to understand the structure of the building at all without the illustrations, and will not understand the final solution. The story is the classic Blizzard Mountain Villa serial killing, the murderer is right under the eyes of the police, has a perfect alibi, the scene is also a perfect secret room, how did he do it... In fact, when you see the end, you know that the author directly explained the method from the beginning of the introduction of the building, but you just can't imagine it.
4. "Three Coffins" – John Dixon Carr
The masterpiece of "King of the Chambers" Carl, mentioning the Chamber of Secrets can not fail to mention the work, Karl with the help of the detective Dr. Phil in the book, summarized all the types of Chambers that appeared at that time, summarized the seven types of Chambers, and left a textbook-like model lecture notes for later creators. The layout of the story is absolutely eye-catching: a person walks into the house and then evaporates; a person is shot in the snow, and there are no footprints of a second person around him—two bizarre events, coupled with supernatural events such as brother feuds, corpse resurrections, and evil curses, which make the whole book full of eerie Gothic atmosphere. Whether it is the two extremely bizarre chambers contained in the story itself, or the most famous "chamber lecture notes" in history. All of them make "Three Coffins" an extremely rare masterpiece in the history of reasoning.