The Adventure of the Empty House
Other early locked-room mysteries include The Adventure of the Empty House (a Sherlock Holmes story) by Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903, Israel Zangwill's "The Big Bow Mystery" (1892), "Le Mystère de la Chambre Jaune" ("The Mystery of the Yellow Room") written in 1907 by French journalist and author Gaston Leroux and "The Problem of Cell 13" by Jacques Futrelle and featuring "The Thinking Machine" Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen.