To this day, I've never figured out a single locked-room mystery.
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When a locked-room mystery doesn't work, the solution makes you groan, and the book gets hurled across the room.
It was really in the Golden Age, between the two world wars, when the pure detective story - of which the locked room mystery is really the ultimate form - became popular.
I've always had an air of mystery.
A lot of locked-room mysteries take time for you to pay attention and see the setup. They aren't thrillers, and they don't move along. The modern mystery story is really faster-paced, and I think modern readers tend to prefer seeing something happening on every other page.
Mystery is something that appeals to most everybody.
Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise.
I want the reader to know what's going on. So there's never a mystery in my books.
You know the thing that interests me about 'Unsolved Mysteries?' It's because there are people out there, people who know something, who may have the one final clue.
There are mysteries, secret zones in each individual.
No one ever tells a story to help you figure out where to go when a door closes on you.
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