- locked room mystery, Tui li xiao shuo, Zhang pian xiao shuo
A murder mystery featuring various potentially supernatural elements A classic tale combining hints of the supernatural and an 'impossible' murder. The death of Miles Despard looks simple enough.
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Grave, cool, plot-driven and classical in form.
- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
- character-ledplot-driven
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- John Dickson Carr
- First published
- 1937
- Pages
- 280
- Publisher
- Le livre de poche, Harper, Le Livre De Poche
- Editions
- 14
- Language
- Chinese, French, English
- ISBN
- 9781613167007
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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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