Looking for Elevator Murder Cases! (Found)

24.09.2022: one new entry.

Among all the types of locked room murders and other impossible crimes, a good old elevator murder has a special place for me. However, it doesn’t seem to be that popular. These are the deductive stories about elevators I currently know:

• Alan Thomas’ The Death of Laurence Vining (1928) – decribed by Adey as “Death by stabbing in a locked lift”. Via TomCat and Velleic.
• George Goodchild’s “McLean of Scotland Yard, Chapter XII” (1929) – described by Adey as “Death by shooting in a closed lift”.
• Roger Scarlett’s Murder Among the Angells (1932) – an old man is stabbed while moving in a cloed elevator, despite the size of his wheelchair not even leaving place for another person. Via TomCat and Velleic.
• Stanislas-André Steeman’s Six Dead Men (1932) – described by Adey as “Death by stabbing in a closed elevator”.
• The Carr & Rhode co-authored novel, Fatal Descent (1939) – described by Adey as “Death by shooting in a closed elevator”.
• Clayton Rawson’s “Claws of Satan” (Red Star Mystery – June 1940; as by “Stuart Towne”) – Don Diavolo vanishes from a locked elevator after being arrested. Via TomCat.
• Cornell Woolrich’s “Finger of Doom” (Detective Fiction Weekly – 22 June 1940) – described by Skupin as “Disappearance of an innocent girl seen to enter a guarded apartment building after entering the elevator, with all tenants denying having seen her”.
• James Yaffe’s “Department of Impossible Crimes” (EQMM – July 1943) – described by Adey as “Death by stabbing in a closed lift between floors and unoccupied but for the victim”.
• Bill Krohn’s “The Impossible Murder of Dr. Satanus” (EQMM – April 1965) – described by Adey as “Death by stabbing in a locked lift”.
• Josef Škvorecký’s ““A Tried and Proven Method”/”Dobrá stará daktyloskopie” (1966) – described by Adey as “Death by falling from a cable car that arrives at itsdestination empty”.
• Edward D. Hoch’s “The Vanishing of Velma” (AHMM – August 1969) – described by Adey as “Disappearance of a girl from a Ferris wheel under observation”.
• “The Two Million Clams of Cap’n Jack”, Banacek s01e08 (1973) – described by Skupin as “Disappearance of valuable stock certificate plates, and the guard who carried them, from an elevator”.
• “The Adventure of the 12th Floor Express”, Ellery Queen s01e05 (1975) – newspaper publisher shot in a private elevator while being mid-floors.
• “The Real Gone Gondola”, The Clue Club s01e03 (1976) – impossible disappearance from a closed moving ski lift under observation. Via TomCat.
• William Marshall’s Skullduggery (1979) – described by Skupin as “The mugging of victims in an elevator when it stopped at a floor on which the outside door had been nailed shut”.
• Peter Godfrey’s “The Flung-Back Lid” (John Creasey’s Crime Collection, 1979) – Death by stabbing in a closed cable car. Via TomCat.
• Phillips Lore’s Murder Behind Closed Doors (1980) – Adey describes impossibility number 4 as “Attempted murder by poison inside a locked elevator”.
• Reginald Hill’s “There Are No Ghosts in the Soviet Union” (volume of the same name, 1987) – described by Adey as “A man is pushed into a lift and promptly disappears through the floor”.
• Edward D. Hoch’s “The Way Up to Hades” (AHMM – January 1988) – Described by Skupin as “Disappearance of a man seen to enter and to be travelling in a glass elevator that made no stops between floors”. I desperately forgot about it despite it being awesome and was reminded by TomCat and Velleic.
• “Columbo Goes to the Guillotine”, Columbo s08e01 (1989) – problem 1 described by Skupin as “Death by guillotine in a warehouse apartment with door and horizontal bifold elevator door locked on the inside”.
• Kate Wilhelm’s Smart House (1989) – disappointing solution, via TomCat.
• “Morning: What Goes Up” (comic story), in The Maze Agency Special (1990) – death by shooting in a closed elevator, which victim rode with another innocent person. Via Dr. Nemo.
• Christopher Golden’s “The Ultimate Locked Room” (The Ten-Minute Detective, 1997) – described by Skupin as “Death by a blow to the head in an elevator with no-one inside but the victim”.
• Three Detective Conan episodes: The Desperate Revival (1999, ch. 251-60, eps. 188-93), Hattori Heiji vs. Kudō Shinichi: Deduction Battle on the Ski Slope! (2005, ch.518-22, ep. 490), Deduction Showdown at the Haunted Hotel (2011, ch. 768-70, eps. 646-7), Everyone Saw (2013, ch. 831-3, eps. 710-711).
• Lois H. Gresh & Robert Weinberg’s “Death Rides the Elevator” in Mammoth Book of Locked-Room Mysteries and Impossible Crimes, 2000 – described by Skupin as “Decapitation of a man riding in an elevator on his own”.
• Detective Conan original episode, The Entrance to the Maze: The Anger of the Colossus (ep. 208, 2000) by Hashiba Chiaki – impossible murder onboard a cable car with the body disappearing and reappearing elsewhere within seconds.
• “Turnabout Goodbyes”/”逆転、そしてサヨナラ“, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney entry 4 (2001) – murder by shooting committed in an elevator,the suspect actually remembers inflicting the shot, but is innocent.
• “Mr. Monk Goes to the Carnival”, Monk s01e05 (2002) – described by Skupin as “Death by stabbing of a man on a Ferris wheel which he rode with another innocent person”.
• “Mr Monk Goes To Vegas”, Monk s03e14 (2005) – seemingly an accident in an elevator, the only suspect has ironclad alibi. Via Dr. Nemo.
• Paul Halter’s “The Tunnel of Death” (translation in EQMM – March/April 2005) – described by Skupin as “Death by shooting in an enclosed moving escalator when the victim was guarded on all sides”. Via TomCat.
• Siobhan Dowd’s The London Eye Mystery (2007) – described by Skupin as “Disappearance of a boy seen to get into one of the pods of the London Eye”.
• Maria Hudgins’ “Murder on the London Eye” (EQMM – December 2007) – described by Skupin as “Death by strangling in a capsule on the London Eye when witnesses say the victim was alone”.
• Mike Cooper’s “Whiz Bang” (EQMM – September/October 2011) – described by Skupin as “Death by shooting of a man on his own in a glass elevator between floors”. Via TomCat.
• Gavin MacDonald’s “Death Lift” (self-published in The Forsyth Saga, 2011) – described by Skupin as “Death by stabbing of a man in a lift, when of the four other people in the building, all alibied each other for the time of the murder”.
• “Last Woman Standing”, CSI s13e16 (2013) – described by Skupin as “Death by throat slitting in an elevator of a victim alone, with no murder weapon”.
• “Enough Nemesis to Go Around”, Elementary s03e01 (2014) – described by Skupin as “Death by shooting in a locked elevator in a hotel”.
• Alexander Prokopovich’s “Death in the Elevator”/”Смерть в лифте” (Убийство в закрытой комнате. Лучшие рассказы, 2014) – a man is found shot after after a non-stop ride in an elevator, but it is not a suicide. A Russian-language non-translated story with an apparently original solution, via Roger Sheringham.
• Imamura Masahiro’s Death Among the Undead (2017; has a quasi-impossible murder in an elevator) – via TomCat.
• Robert Innes’ Flatline (2018) – after spending twenty-five minute in a elevator stuck between stories, the victim turns out to be dead by drowning. Via TomCat.
• “Who Killed the Guy on the Ski Lift?”, The Good Cop s01e07 (2018) – victim stabbed while being on the ski lift only accompanied by a person assumed innocent.
• Tom Mead’s Death and the Conjuror (2022) – via Scott. I seriously need to go up-to-date.

Are there any else anywhere at all? Please add elevator murder (and non-murder) stories that you know to this list!

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