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locked room mystery

subgenre of detective fiction in which a seemingly impossible crime is committed
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locked room mystery

Summary

locked room mystery is a literary genre[1]. It draws 373 Wikipedia views per month (literary_genre category, ranking #50 of 487).[2]

Key Facts

  • locked room mystery's instance of is recorded as literary genre[3].
  • locked room mystery's subclass of is recorded as howdunnit[4].
  • locked room mystery's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0174gw[5].
  • locked room mystery's main subject is recorded as homicide[6].
  • locked room mystery's described by source is recorded as The Hollow Man[7].
  • locked room mystery's different from is recorded as closed circle of suspects[8].
  • locked room mystery's uses is recorded as locked room[9].
  • locked room mystery's Quora topic ID is recorded as Locked-Room-Mystery[10].
  • locked room mystery's TV Tropes ID is recorded as Main/LockedRoomMystery[11].
  • locked room mystery's Namuwiki ID is recorded as 밀실 트릭[12].

Why It Matters

locked room mystery draws 373 Wikipedia views per month (literary_genre category, ranking #50 of 487).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 17 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[13] It is known by 23 alternative names across languages and contexts.[14]

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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . Quora. wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [13] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [14] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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