{"id":2905,"date":"2025-08-11T16:07:02","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T07:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/frankyoshida.com\/experts-at-community\/?p=2905"},"modified":"2025-08-11T16:08:39","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T07:08:39","slug":"%e3%80%90literature%e3%80%91perfect-locked-room-mystery-a-chilling-ending-that-will-haunt-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frankyoshida.com\/experts-at-community\/?p=2905","title":{"rendered":"\u3010Literature\u3011Perfect Locked-Room Mystery \u2013 A Chilling Ending That Will Haunt You"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This is my review of “A Prelude to the Perfect Locked Room”<\/em> by Ed\u014d Hayami, included in Mystery All-Stars<\/em> (Kadokawa Bunko), edited by the Honkaku Mystery Writers Club. Spoiler Alert<\/span>.<\/p>\n

After coming back from grocery shopping with Mom, I arrive home to find Dad hanging in the living room. The police, without even performing an autopsy, rule it a suicide. My father, \u201ca man who could only write mystery novels that never sold,\u201d and my mother, \u201conce a full-time employee at a securities firm, now a supermarket cashier,\u201d are not the type of parents to leave such questions unanswered\u2014at least not for me. I begin to suspect there\u2019s more to Dad\u2019s death.<\/p>\n

Before long, the family receives 50 million yen from Dad\u2019s life insurance. About six months later, Mom brings home a man. I\u2019m convinced this man is not someone she met only recently.<\/p>\n

Dad had been obsessed with devising locked-room tricks for his mystery novels. Did he dig his own grave with one of his own elaborate setups? Or, burdened by our family\u2019s financial hardship, did he stage an accident to leave us the insurance payout?<\/p>\n

In the final scene, I vow, \u201cI will one day avenge Dad\u2019s death,\u201d setting my sights on uncovering the true culprit. But is my target Mom\u2014or the man she welcomed after Dad\u2019s death? The ending leaves much to ponder.<\/p>\n

That said, for someone like me with limited imagination, the trick presented in this story was difficult to visualize. I would have appreciated a simpler, clearer explanation.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re curious, give it a read. And while you\u2019re at it, I\u2019d be thrilled if you also checked out my own full-length social mystery novel, \u201cThe Mysterious Rouge.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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\"\"\uff0aThe Mysterious Rouge<\/em> by Frank Yoshida<\/p>\n\n\n
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