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#OTD in 1891.

Israel Zangwill's The Big Bow Mystery, the first classic full-length locked room mystery, begins serialization in The Star (London), before being published as a novel the following year.

It has been almost continuously in print since 1891 and has been used as the basis for three movies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Bow_Mystery

The Big Bow Mystery at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/28164

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