Murder in the Golden Age of Locked Rooms - The House of Snow and the Six Tricks

 

Murder in the Golden Age of Locked Rooms by Danro Kamosaki is a novel that knows what it is, and what it is is all about locked rooms. Not just any kind of locked rooms, but locked locked rooms. No psychological tricks involving victims desperately locking the door themselves before dying of their injuries or culprits pretending that the murder already took place then sneakily committing the crime right under the witness's noses. No, this is a novel about tricks - tricks involving meters of string, construction equipment, and gallon jugs of white phosphorus and liquid nitrogen. If you like the sorts of cases the Ace Attorney fangames community came up with in 2008 (or as recently as March 2024, as it turns out), this is one for you.

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Intro (Title page, cast of characters, and mansion floorplan)

Prologue: Three Years After Japan's First Locked Room Murder 

Chapter 1: The Locked Room Era

Reminiscence 1: December, Three Years Ago 

Chapter 2: A Logical Elucidation of Locked Room Tricks

Reminiscence 2: December, Three Years Ago 

Chapter 3: A Double Locked Room

Chapter 4: Breaking the Ice in a Locked Room 

Reminiscence 3: July, One Year Ago

Chapter 5: A True Locked Room 

Reminiscence 4: April, Four Years Ago

Chapter 6: Collapse of the Closed Room 

Interlude: An Indulgence Called A Locked Room

Epilogue: Three Years and One Month After Japan's First Locked Room Murder 

And once you're done, be sure to check out the sequel.