Is the library ‘the most fatal room in British popular fiction’?

Simpsons edition of Clue / Parker Bros.

If you grew up playing Clue, you know the thrill of being the first to figure out that Colonel Mustard did it with the candlestick in the library. Do book-lined rooms have an equally sinister role in novels?

The crime writer P.D. James has argued that the library is “the most fatal room in British popular fiction.” But is it true?