The joy of these kinds of stories (which were very popular in the Interwar Period) is the journey as much as the actual crime as we follow the detective who investigates the scenario thoroughly, applying logical reasoning to make the impossible actually possible.
Once you get to the conclusion in this story (which can be hard work at times, the story does drag a bit) it is undoubtably interesting though maybe (spoiler alert) a bit of a cheat. (The detective did it, the victim was still alive when he broke the door open). The use of psychology is clever however.
An interesting bit of late Victorian social comment and satire.
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