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Download or read book The Bowstring Murders written by Carr Dickson and published by Zebra Books. This book was released on 1989 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some dastardly assassin donned a mail glove from Lord Rayle's priceless collection of medieval battle gear and strangled the dotty old peer to death with his own bowstring! The clues are not linked, but the champion detective, John Gaunt, is determined to bring the evildoer to justice!

Download or read book The Bowstring Murders written by John Dickson Carr and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Bowstring Murders written by Carter Dickson and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elderly eccentric Lord Rayle has a priceless collection of medieval arms and armor housed at Bowstring Castle. When he is found strangled by one of his own bowstrings, it is up to alcoholic detective John Gaunt to solve the crime.

Download or read book John Dickson Carr written by S. T. Joshi and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Dickson Carr is known as the master of the “locked-room” mystery—the “impossible crime.” But Carr also wrote short stories, radio plays, essays, introductions, and book reviews. S. T. Joshi has written the first full-length study of Carr’s entire work and pays particular attention to this author’s three best-known detectives: Henri Bencolin, Dr. Gideon Fell, and Sir Henry Merrivale.

Download or read book The Plague Court Murders written by John Dickson Carr and published by Penzler Publishers. This book was released on 2021-02-02 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a spiritual medium is murdered in a locked hut on a haunted estate, Sir Henry Merrivale seeks a logical solution to a ghostly crime. Plague Court is old and crumbling, long neglected after its lord, hangman’s assistant Louis Playge, fell victim to the black death hundreds of years before. Famously haunted by Playge’s ghost, the property finally has a new owner and banishing the spirit is the first order of business. And when the medium employed with this task is found stabbed to death in a locked stone hut on the grounds, surrounded by an untouched circle of mud, the other guests at Plague Court have every reason to fear an act of supernatural violence—for who among them would be diabolical and calculating enough to orchestrate such an impossible execution? Enter Sir Henry Merrivale, an amateur sleuth of many talents with deductive powers strong enough to unspool even the most baffling crimes. But in the creepy, atmospheric setting of Plague Court, where every indication suggests intervention from the afterlife, he encounters a seemingly-illogical murder scene unlike anything he’s ever encountered before . . . Reissued for the first time in years, The Plague Court Murders is the first novel in the Sir Henry Merrivale series. Originally published under the name Carter Dickson, it is a masterful example of the “impossible crime” novel for which John Dickson Carr is known. “Very few detective stories baffle me nowadays, but Mr. Carr’s always do.” —Agatha Christie

Download or read book Watteau s Shepherds written by LeRoy Panek and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detective stories should be examined from a literary point of view, with special attention to literary history and to materials and patterns from which the writers created their fictions. This book sheds new light into the fascinating field of detective fiction.

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Download or read book The White Priory Murders written by Carter Dickson and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2023-11-07 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Bennett has been invited to stay at White Priory for Christmas among the retinue of the glamorous Hollywood actress Marcia Tait. Her producer, her lover, the playwright for her next hit and her agent are all here, soon to become so many suspects when Tait is found murdered on a cold December morning in the lakeside pavilion. Only the footprints of her discoverer disturb the snow which fell overnight – and which stopped just shortly after Marcia was last seen alive. How did the murderer get in and out of the pavilion without leaving a trace? When Bennett's uncle, the cantankerous amateur sleuth Sir Henry Merrivale arrives from London to make sense of this impossible crime, the reader is treated to a feast of the author's trademark twists, beguiling false answers and one of the most ingenious solutions in the history of the mystery genre.

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Download or read book Death Watch written by John Dickson Carr and published by Murder Room. This book was released on 2012-11-19 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the shadowy hallway of clockmaker Johannes Carver's house a policeman is found murdered, the arrow-tipped minute hand of an antique clock embedded in his neck. For Dr Gideon Fell this is the only case that has ever really frightened him, and before he can solve it he must find answers to some seemingly impossible questions: why was Calvin Boscombe standing near the corpse with a silencer on his gun? Who locked the attic door? And what has become of the sixteenth-century death-watch?

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Download or read book Most Secret written by John Dickson Carr and published by Murder Room. This book was released on 2013-12-19 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young Roderick Kinsmere was a country bumpkin when he strolled into the Great Court of Charles II's Whitehall Palace. Three days later he had lost his fortune, gained a wife, fought for - and been outwitted by - his king, and no one would ever call Rowdy Kinsmere a bumpkin again. It was 1670 and London was a teeming, filthy, dangerous and splendiferous place. The king was in trouble and Roderick was surrounded by plots and counterplots. And somehow everything centred on the beautiful sapphire ring he had inherited from his father ... 'Mr Carr has contrived a fine, adventurous entertainment of politics and piracy, espionage and murder' The Times