There's this fun Japanese crime mystery show called Galileo where a physics prof solves similar 'classic' crime story tropes. My favorite 'modern' solution to

There's this fun Japanese crime mystery show called Galileo where a physics prof solves similar 'classic' crime story tropes. My favorite 'modern' solution to the locked room was, spoilers!, that the door with a large handle to the room appeared locked at the time of the crime because the murderer was using a small hologram to make it appear locked from afar. In fact, there's a huge literature genre in Japanese fiction: Honkaku, reanimated in the 90s as Shin-Honkaku. Do yourself a pleasure and go read Edogawa Rampo.