Early this year I posted: A Private Note on Locked-Room Mystery Novels. My aim was to complete reading the fifteen novels listed. So far I’ve read:
- The Hollow Man (aka The Three Coffins), 1935 (Dr. Gideon Fell #6) by John Dickson Carr
- Rim of the Pit, 1944 (Rogan Kincaid #2) by Hake Talbot
- The Mystery of the Yellow Room, 1907 (Joseph Rouletabille #1) by Gaston Leroux
- The Crooked Hinge, 1937 (Dr. Gideon Fell #8) by John Dickson Carr
- The Judas Window, 1938 (Sir Henry Merrivale #8) by Carter Dickson
- The Perfect Crime: The Big Bow Mystery, 1892 by Israel Zangwill
- Death from a Top Hat, 1938 (The Great Merlini #1) by Clayton Rawson
- The Chinese Orange Mystery, 1934 (Ellery Queen Detective #8) by Ellery Queen
- Nine Times Nine, 1940 (Sister Ursula #1) by Anthony Boucher
- The Peacock Feather Murders (aka The Ten Teacups), 1937 (Sir Henry Merrivale #6) by Carter Dickson
- The King is Dead, 1952 (Ellery Queen Detective #23) by Ellery Queen
- Through a Glass, Darkly, 1950 (Dr. Basil Willing #8) by Helen McCloy
- He Wouldn’t Kill Patience, 1944 (Sir Henry Merrivale #15) by Carter Dickson
- (tie) Too Many Magicians, 1966 (Lord Darcy #2) by Randall Garrett; and Invisible Green, 1977 (Thackeray Phin #2) by John Sladek
And I look forward to reading, before the year’s end, the rest of books on the list. Stay tuned.
(Source: A Locked Room Library by John Pugmaire)