Jonathan Creek is always worth watching. 'Jack in the Box' and 'The Grinning Man' come to mind.
How to commit murder inside a locked room
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Re: How to commit murder inside a locked room
#52How to commit a murder inside a locked room, off the top of my head: - Are the windows locked? Otherwise it's a rock climber who can climb the side of the building. Some buildings are not that difficult to climb for a good climber. - The murderer was not in the room when the murder happened. Poison or a trap of some sort. (Kinda boring.) - The murderer was in the room when the murder happened, but locked the door beh…
In many TV shows it ends up being the person that first gets into the room (supposedly after the person is already dead, but not in reality) that does the killing. I.e. police, family member, medical staff, etc.
Re: How to commit murder inside a locked room
#53That just gave me a crazy idea for a game, based on some similar books I've read online. Make a game where, say, you revive every time and your goal is to survive some set period of time but it's a mystery how to do so as many things are out to kill you. Say you have X hours before a large bomb will wipe out your city or whatever and several folks are waiting to kill you in the mean time or such and the goal is basic…
I’ve done an escape room puzzle that had precisely this kind of premise.
Re: How to commit murder inside a locked room
#54How to commit a murder inside a locked room, off the top of my head: - Are the windows locked? Otherwise it's a rock climber who can climb the side of the building. Some buildings are not that difficult to climb for a good climber. - The murderer was not in the room when the murder happened. Poison or a trap of some sort. (Kinda boring.) - The murderer was in the room when the murder happened, but locked the door beh…
> The murderer is still inside the room, very well hidden. Say, inside the sofa where the stuffing should be, waiting very quietly until the investigation is over so they can leave. Not a murder, but this is essentially the resolution of a Spike Lee movie. (no name - no spoiler)
When I think couches with people inside I cant get Frank from Always Sunny climbing naked out of a couch out of my mind.
Re: How to commit murder inside a locked room
#55I'd expect that committing a murder in a locked room doesn't really require much in the way of planning or knowledge. Put me in a locked room with someone and I don't need much (except the will and likely a weapon) to do the deed. However, Getting away with committing a murder in a locked room is the hard part -- how do you exit the room and re-lock it from the inside? How do you make sure to remove all traces of you…
The intended meaning is pretty obvious, and explicitly laid it in the second paragraph.
>The intended meaning is pretty obvious, and explicitly laid it in the second paragraph.
Is it? As a native English speaker, the only thing that was immediately obvious (to me) from the title was that commit != getting away with.
If I ever decide to read TFA (highly unlikely), I'm sure I'll notice that part. Thanks for giving me the heads up though.
Re: How to commit murder inside a locked room
#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thats sort of the opposite of the game just released - Deathloop
And Deathloop is from Arkane Studios, who make very good games (Dishonoured in particular).
Havent had a chance to play that but I thought Prey was extremely underrated. Also hard as fuck on the harder difficulties however. Reminded me of a modern remake of the original Half Life on crack
Re: How to commit murder inside a locked room
#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
The intended meaning is pretty obvious, and explicitly laid it in the second paragraph.
>The intended meaning is pretty obvious, and explicitly laid it in the second paragraph. Is it? As a native English speaker, the only thing that was immediately obvious (to me) from the title was that commit != getting away with. If I ever decide to read TFA (highly unlikely), I'm sure I'll notice that part. Thanks for giving me the heads up though.
Locked room murder is a detective genre trope in all kinds of shows, books, and movies. The goal is of course to get away with it.
Re: How to commit murder inside a locked room
#58I'd expect that committing a murder in a locked room doesn't really require much in the way of planning or knowledge. Put me in a locked room with someone and I don't need much (except the will and likely a weapon) to do the deed. However, Getting away with committing a murder in a locked room is the hard part -- how do you exit the room and re-lock it from the inside? How do you make sure to remove all traces of you…
Committing a murder is really only an issue if you push it.
Re: How to commit murder inside a locked room
#59How to commit a murder inside a locked room, off the top of my head: - Are the windows locked? Otherwise it's a rock climber who can climb the side of the building. Some buildings are not that difficult to climb for a good climber. - The murderer was not in the room when the murder happened. Poison or a trap of some sort. (Kinda boring.) - The murderer was in the room when the murder happened, but locked the door beh…
There's this fun Japanese crime mystery show called Galileo where a physics prof solves similar 'classic' crime story tropes.
My favorite 'modern' solution to the locked room was, spoilers!, that the door with a large handle to the room appeared locked at the time of the crime because the murderer was using a small hologram to make it appear locked from afar.
In fact, there's a huge literature genre in Japanese fiction: Honkaku, reanimated in the 90s as Shin-Honkaku. Do yourself a pleasure and go read Edogawa Rampo.
Re: How to commit murder inside a locked room
#60How to commit a murder inside a locked room, off the top of my head: - Are the windows locked? Otherwise it's a rock climber who can climb the side of the building. Some buildings are not that difficult to climb for a good climber. - The murderer was not in the room when the murder happened. Poison or a trap of some sort. (Kinda boring.) - The murderer was in the room when the murder happened, but locked the door beh…
Also: it wasn't a murder, the apparent foul play is illusory.
Bonus points for any combination of the possibilities.