Locked-room mystery

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What Wikipedia says

The "locked-room" or "impossible crime" mystery is a type of crime, typically murder ("locked-room murder"), that appears in crime and detective fiction, in which the circumstances make it seem impossible for the perpetrator to have entered the crime scene, committed the crime, and left undetected.

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