Steel‐reinforced doors and walls, video cameras feeding images from all other rooms in the house, dedicated power and telephone lines and a store of food and water make it seemingly impregnable.īut a hiding-place can become, under certain circumstances, a prison, or worse. In the event of a break‐in, the owner can retreat to their panic room, which can only be locked from inside and can’t be opened from outside once it is secured. Panic rooms have become must-have accessories for those with enough wealth both to acquire large and often remote properties and to attract the wrong kind of attention to themselves. It hinges, at least apparently, on an extrapolation of the tradition into our present day era of high tech security in the home. The plot of my new novel, Panic Room, is a contemporary twist on that. There’s a long tradition of locked room murder mysteries in crime fiction.
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