- Sir Merrivale, Henry (Fictitious character), Fiction, Detective and mystery stories, Mystery fiction
The murderer sent a formal invitation to Scotland Yard telling them the time and place of the murder. Incredulous, and astounded at the audacity of such a note, the Yard recalled a similar, and still unsolved, case of two years previous.
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Cool, classical in form, intimate and plot-driven.
- cooloverwhelming
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
- character-ledplot-driven
- gravecomic
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- Author
- John Dickson Carr
- First published
- 1937
- Pages
- 259
- Publisher
- Morrow, Pocket Books, Rue Morgue Press
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780930330682
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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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