For this article, I read "The Locked Bathroom" by H. R. F. Keating. This was an interesting story. Mrs. Craggs was working for Mr. and Mrs. Marchpane. She had been wanting to quit her job for a long time, but she kept working for them. She was not that fond of Mrs. Marchpane.
One day, Mrs. Marchpane and her husband were in the bathroom. He was in the shower, and she was standing in front of the mirror washing her face. The bathroom door was locked. When Mrs. Marchpane turned around, she couldn't find her husband. She quickly unbolted the door and dashed out screaming that her husband was gone.
At first, Mrs. Craggs thought that he had died, but Mrs. Marchpane yelled out that he had disappeared. He wasn't in the bathroom when she turned around. The door was still bolted from the inside. How is this possible? How could he escape from the bathroom with the door bolted from the inside. There wasn't any other access to enter and leave from the bathroom. She was so upset that Mrs. Craggs had a difficult time calming her down.
Mrs. Craggs took her downstairs and into the kitchen to fix her some hot tea. She didn't want any, but Mrs. Craggs insisted. She finally drank some tea, and then they called the police to investigate her husband's disappearance. They used all kinds of people and equipment for their investigation. They used photographers, Geiger counters, stethoscopes, and fingerprint expers to search for clues as to what might have happened to her husband. However, they didn't find anything. There wasn't any kind of evidence as to what might have happened to her husband. He just vanished out of a locked bathroom.
However, Mrs. Craggs realized what had happened to Mrs. Marchpane's husband. Now, you'll have to read the story to find out what happened.
I enjoy reading stories that have impossible settings like locked rooms because it makes the story more suspenseful. Readers don't know how someone could escape a locked room. As they are reading, the suspense continues to build until the end when the impossible situation does became possible.
There are several Classic Mysteries that you will find interesting and suspenseful. As you are reading, you keep wondering how the impossible situation could be possible.
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