“The Locked Room Library”
By Gigi Pandian
An impossible crime short story, originally published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, July/August 2021
Short-listed for both an Edgar Award and Agatha Award—and now, an Anthony Award and Macavity Award!
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The owner of San Francisco’s Locked Room Library—a new private library established to celebrate classic mysteries—has discovered a secret about John Dickson Carr’s controversial novel The Burning Court. When a newly discovered letter Carr wrote to Frederic Dannay disappears under circumstances identical to one of the eerie impossible crimes in The Burning Court, it’s up to librarian Tamarind Ortega and stage magician Sanjay Rai (The Hindi Houdini) to prove the letter wasn’t stolen by a ghost who vanished through a bricked-up door.
The Locked Room Library setting appears in Under Lock & Skeleton Key, my impossible crime novel now available from Minotaur Books.
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