{"id":6350,"date":"2019-02-28T15:23:11","date_gmt":"2019-02-28T20:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/?p=6350"},"modified":"2020-09-01T10:25:17","modified_gmt":"2020-09-01T14:25:17","slug":"324l-a-hidden-room-mystery-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/324l-a-hidden-room-mystery-story\/","title":{"rendered":"324L: A Hidden Room Mystery Story (Solved!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">1960&#8217;s-1970&#8217;s YA mystery short story&#8211;people search a castle for a missing keep or room wherein may be hidden a fortune.\u00a0 Many people search.\u00a0 They decide to put a cloth in each window as they search; then they can see from the outside which window has no cloth and is therefore the hidden room.\u00a0 The story is possibly from one of the Alfred Hitchcock Presents Anthologies. It certainly had that feel. \u00a0\u00a0Although many others are searching this castle for a missing keep or a room in a keep, only one person finds it. \u00a0There is some sort of secret entrance, I recall.\u00a0 When the finder discovers the entrance and room, another character (the bad guy) goes with him and murders him there and &#8220;hides&#8221; the secret entrance to the room again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\u00a0I recall (or believe I recall) a line at the end\u2014part of the thoughts of the skeptical castle groundskeeper, I think&#8211; &#8220;there was no Norman keep.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1960&#8217;s-1970&#8217;s YA mystery short story&#8211;people search a castle for a missing keep or room wherein may be hidden a fortune.\u00a0 Many people search.\u00a0 They decide to put a cloth in each window as they search; then they can see from the outside which window has no cloth and is therefore the hidden room.\u00a0 The story [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,11,14,27,18,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6350"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6350"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7677,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6350\/revisions\/7677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}