I did try looking it up, but I’ve had no luck. The type of mystery I’m looking for usually involves the cast of characters isolated from the outside world somehow. So it’s one of those things where there is an ensemble of possible suspects, and any of them could have committed the murder, but there is no one else in or out. Agatha Christie wrote a lot of these: And Then There Were None (isolated in a remote mansion), Murder on the Orient Express (isolated on a train), Death on the Nile (isolated on a boat).
I’ve been calling them a locked room mystery, but I now realize that’s entirely wrong, as I’m watching something that is both a locked room mystery and an isolated group of suspects mystery. So is there a name for this? Or am I getting entirely too niche with my preferences? Thanks in advance!
by Solid_Parsley_