Wow! I only recently read two locked room mysteries (read them last year): one by Ruth Ware and one by Agatha Christie. But I realized as you were listing (and showing snippets) of the different ideas, that this is a trope I absolutely love when watching TV shows. Monk and Psych always had excellent locked room mysteries even though I never (before now) recognized them as such. The other one I love watching is Death in Paradise. The very first episode is literally a locked room mystery and they repeat that trope often. No wonder I’ve been obsessed with these shows all my life! Thank you for this!

@janekalmes

2 жыл бұрын

I love them, too!

I loved your previous video on locked room mysteries. I’m very happy to hear more pointers from you.

@janekalmes

2 жыл бұрын

Awesome, glad you liked it!

So many great ideas 💡

@janekalmes

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much, Kim!

So good to see you again! 🖊 📖

@janekalmes

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you, glad to be back!

@alphaomega6684

2 жыл бұрын

@@janekalmes How was your course?! I bet everyone had a great time and learned so much. Love the new hairstyle.

@janekalmes

2 жыл бұрын

Oh, my goodness, it went so great! I was completely blown away by the incredible stories everyone was developing, and… yeah, I genuinely think people loved the class. I’ll be doing another round in August/September, and I can’t wait!

Want to write a Locked Room Mystery? Check this out next: kzread.info/dash/bejne/anel2NKxeMq2k5c.html

Such great ideas, Jane! That Cinderella carriage one would make a great murder mystery retelling! I remember you mentioned an amusement park ride in a previous video where the guy was murdered by the ride technician, could that work as a locked room murder?

@janekalmes

2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely, that's a locked room murder! They were in a car on a Ferris wheel--which no one can enter or leave without being seen! That one was a Time-Shifted Murder: although it appeared that the Victim was killed while in the locked room, it actually happened afterward, when the ride was stopped and other characters could interact with people in the car.

@Avionne_Parris

2 жыл бұрын

@@janekalmes Ah, you're right, and thanks!

Loved the new hair

@janekalmes

2 жыл бұрын

Oh, thank you! ❤️

30 ideas in barely 3 minutes! And I don't have to worry about having shows/books I haven't seen/read yet spoiled before I get a chance to see/read them.

@janekalmes

2 жыл бұрын

Haha, sorry if I tend to be a little heavy on the spoilers!

@patch8376

2 жыл бұрын

@@janekalmes it's okay. Sorry that I fell years, decades behind and let all the cases pile up to the point I'm now an overwhelmed paper amateur sleuth.

Man, if anyone in your life is murdered, you will be suspect #1! Hahah

@janekalmes

Жыл бұрын

Haha, until I catch the killer, that is!

Shouldn't the locked room have more than one suspect?

@janekalmes

2 жыл бұрын

Hi, Greg! Typically, in a locked room mystery, there is either one (innocent) suspect in the locked room with the Victim, or there are zero. This is the essential gimmick behind a locked room mystery-figuring out how someone managed to kill the Victim while the Victim was in a locked room. They’re one of my favorite kinds of mysteries! In this video, I broke down several possible solutions: kzread.info/dash/bejne/anel2NKxeMq2k5c.html

This is actually false and most people make this mistake, the “locked rooms” you listen are more of closed circle. It has to be in a locked room, say like a bedroom or a study that is locked from the inside. The locked room mysteries aren’t planes and trains, if you look it up on TV Tropes, you won’t see a single case that is like this. A locked room actually is supposed to be a locked room. Take “The Mystery of the Yellow Room” where the victim was found bludgeoned in the titular yellow room, locked from the inside! The examples you described are more of “closed circle” examples which are not the same thing!

Here's an idea I was kicking around for a while - someone goes down a tube water slide at an amusement park, and when they come out in the pool at the other end they're dead (stabbed, throat cut, some manner of gruesome death).

@janekalmes

Жыл бұрын

Ooh, what a cool idea!