The Right Knock: A Story, by Helen Van-Anderson. New York: The New York Magazine of Mysteries, 1903. Thirteenth edition.
Van-Anderson was a New Thinker (a movement associated with early Christian Science, but divergent from it).
(The New York Magazine of Mysteries is not about locked room murders.)
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