"Two Days' Solitary Imprisonment" is an intriguing crime mystery novel by the famed author Edward Bellamy. A bachelor living with his married brother is nursing a cold at home one morning. As he settles in on a day of relaxation, he picks up a crime mystery novel about a man who had been wrongly accused of a crime and had to suffer the penalty for it. His imaginative mind begins to wander over the possibility of him being wrongly accused of a crime, the suspicion of him by those closest to him, the anguished pleas he would make to clear his name and the agony if his attempts failed to convince others of his innocence. When he wakes up from his reverie, his sister in law arrives at just that moment with the shocking announcement that a man was killed in their barn the previous night, making him exclaim, rather awkwardly, "I didn't do it!" But his worst fear is soon realized when his brother and his wife begin to ask questions about his strange behavior…"