The Vanishing Bride: the Case of the Disappearance from a Secret Room in the Republic of China

In the autumn of 1936, Shen Yunfan, the eldest son of the Shen family, a prominent family in Shanghai, married Lin Wanqing, a well-known lady. On the wedding night, after the bride entered the new house in full view of everyone, the door was locked from the inside. When the family broke into the house early the next morning, the bride had disappeared without a trace.