Locked room mysteries, also known as “impossible crime” stories, were a popular genre of detective fiction in the 1920s and 1930s. These stories involved a crime that was committed in a room that was locked from the inside, making it seemingly impossible for the perpetrator to have entered or exited the room. The challenge for the detective was to solve the mystery and figure out … Continue reading Locked Room Mysteries of the 1920s and 1930s