Among all the locked-room crime mysteries, better known as the “howdunits,” the 1935 crime novel, The Three Coffins, also published under the U.K. title The Hollow Man, is considered to be the apex of ...

As the early 20th century focused fresh light on cutting-edge murder mysteries — with Agatha Christie at the forefront — other British writers such as Josephine Tey, John Dickson Carr and Dorothy L.