I love impossible crime stories, those murders in locked rooms which couldn't have happened, but obviously did. The acknowledged master in the field was John Dickson Carr, of course, but he was far from the only author.
Take Glyn Carr - no relation to JDC, but the pen name chosen by author Showell Styles. He wrote a series of mysteries all based on the sport of mountain climbing. Many of them qualify as impossible crimes, even though they are set on the sides of mountains in the open air. In their introduction to the Rue Morgue Press edition of Carr's "Death on Milestone Buttress," Tom and Enid Schantz note "Styles managed to find a way to lock the door of a room that had no walls and only the sky for a ceiling."
This was the first book in the series, and quite well done, right down to the way the author manages to create the locked room illusion - yet plays fair throughout. The full audio review is available on the podcast.
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