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> GAMBLING WITH DEATH Ten minutes after the Duc de Saligny entered the card room of the elegant Parisian gambling house, the police burst in - and found the Duc's severed head, standing upright on the stump of its neck, staring at them from the center of the room.
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Classical in form, cool, plot-driven and resolved.
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- character-ledplot-driven
- resolvedopen-ended
- gravecomic
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- Author
- John Dickson Carr
- First published
- January 1997
- Pages
- 253
- Publisher
- מ. מזרחי, Hamilton, British Library, The
- Editions
- 11
- Language
- heb, English
- ISBN
- 9780821719312
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John Dickson Carr was a very highly regarded American mystery writer, though he lived for most of the '30s and '40s in England, married there and set many of his books there (<a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dickson_Carr>Wikipedia</a>). His two main detectives, Dr. Fell and Sir Henry Merrivale, were very English (<a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dickson_Carr#Dr._Fell_and_Sir_Henry_Merrivale>Wikipedia</a>).
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