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fromSlate Magazine
1 day ago

To Fully Appreciate the Brilliant New Knives Out, It Helps to Understand the Subgenres It's Riffing On

The locked-room mystery-otherwise known as the "impossible crime" mystery-is not to be confused with the closed-circle mystery often associated with the queen of Golden Age detective fiction, Agatha Christie. The classic "country house during a blizzard" setting with an array of suspects, each of whom might have committed the murder, is a closed-circle setup, as is Christie's Orient Express train, and the steamer in Death on the Nile. In a locked-room mystery, it seems that no one could have done it and escaped undetected.
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fromDefector
2 days ago

'Wake Up Dead Man' Defines Justice Differently | Defector

Wake Up Dead Man uses locked-room mystery conventions, teaching classic methods while relying on a charismatic detective and genre-typical twists to refresh the form.
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fromConsequence
2 weeks ago

Wake Up Dead Man: A Holy Murder and a Heavenly Cast

A Benoit Blanc mystery centers on a locked-room murder of a monsignor in a small parish, exploring suspects, resurrection themes, and clever genre innovation.
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fromArs Technica
3 weeks ago

Benoit Blanc takes on a "perfectly impossible crime" in Wake Up Dead Man trailer

Wake Up Dead Man is a whodunit mixing mystery and dark humor about Blanc investigating Wicks' murder; theaters Nov 26, 2025, Netflix Dec 12, 2025.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

The best recent crime and thrillers review roundup

A 1910 Cornish locked-room murder mystery launches a fun series with eccentric family, hidden grudges, twists, red herrings, and a bumbling police officer.
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fromInverse
3 months ago

Netflix's Most Exciting Mystery Thriller Is Completely Changing Gears

Knives Out: Wake Up Dead Man places Benoit Blanc in a Gothic locked-room mystery centered on a supposed miracle and an apparently immaculate murder in a parsonage.
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fromSFGATE
3 months ago

'Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery' is a religious experience

Benoit Blanc returns in Wake Up Dead Man, shifting the Knives Out franchise into a church-set, Poe-influenced locked-room mystery focused on spiritual themes.
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