When I was reading Good News, Bad News, one of the characters talked quite a lot about locked room mysteries. I decided that I probably hadn’t read enough of them myself. So I picked up this classic novel. John Dickson Carr is one of those people who turned out novels by the dozen, having to retain more than one publisher so that they all came out.
But having been so prolific, this is about the only novel of his that’s currently in print. It’s London-set thriller with a series of seemingly impossible deaths, investigated by Dr Gideon Fell, an expert in such things.
It’s all carried out very well, and the solution, however unlikely, is not remotely impossible and does make sense. I suppose Jonathan Creek is the only real current day successor to this type of work.