The best historical mysteries use the period's lack of forensic science as the actual puzzle

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Series that age in real time versus historical mysteries frozen in one decade Starting with the Roman ones is the wrong way into historical mysteries and everybody does it Historical mysteries set in wartime are crowding the shelves and the settings are starting to blur Ronald Knox's ten commandments for detective fiction banned the secret passage and the unknown twin How a single historical mystery hides its clue inside an object the period had just invented The Mystery of the Yellow Room is still the standard every locked-room mystery gets measured against The ice-and-string tricks behind most locked room mystery solutions stopped working once readers learned them Very few Golden Age locked-room mystery novels actually obey all ten of Knox's rules How a locked room mystery seals a room so the reader believes nobody could have got out Hobby-themed amateur sleuth series use baking and knitting as an excuse to put a body on page three