The Locked Room Mystery mystery

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‘So who's the victim?’ asked Detective Inspector Jack Spratt, shaking his overcoat of the cold winter rain as he entered Usher Towers. ‘It's Locked Room Mystery,’ explained his amiable sidekick, Detective Sergeant Mary Mary. ‘He was found dead at 7.30pm. But get this: the library had been locked … from the inside.’

‘Locked Room killed inside a locked room, eh?’ murmured Spratt. ‘What was that tired old plot device doing out here anyway? I thought he was at the At the End of The Day retirement home for washed-up old cliches.’

‘It was the Mystery Contrivances Club annual dinner,’ explained Mary. ‘Locked Room was going to be given a long-service award—you know how they like to stick a gong on ideas before they die out completely. Last year it was the Identical Twins plot device.’

‘I always hated that one,’ said Jack.

They stepped into the spacious marble-lined entrance vestibule and a worried-looking individual ran up to them, wringing his hands in a desperate manner.

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