locked-room mystery

English

Noun

locked-room mystery (plural locked-room mysteries)

  1. A type of crime (typically a murder) in detective fiction that is committed in circumstances under which it appears impossible for the perpetrator to have entered the crime scene, committed the crime, and left undetected.
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.