John Dickson Carr was the undisputed master of the locked-room mystery, creating puzzles that seemed to defy all logic. His crowning achievement was the 1935 masterpiece, The Hollow Man (published in the US as The Three Coffins), which is widely regarded as the greatest example of this subgenre.

Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) was a pioneering American writer, poet, and critic known for his dark, atmospheric works that explored themes...

Ellery Queen, the pseudonym used by cousins Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee, is synonymous with the golden age of detective fiction....

The world of impossible crime and locked-room mystery fiction is filled with puzzles that defy conventional logic and challenge even the...