Japanese locked-room mysteries are finally being translated and they are stranger than the British ones

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Where to start with modern locked-room mysteries if the Golden Age classics feel dusty Poirot straightens the ornaments and Miss Marple knits: both are reading the room in different costumes 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 ice-and-string tricks behind most locked room mystery solutions stopped working once readers learned them Japanese and Scandinavian locked-room mysteries solve the same problem from opposite directions Which contemporary locked-room mysteries actually play fair with the reader? Very few Golden Age locked-room mystery novels actually obey all ten of Knox's rules 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