When Dr. Gideon Fell finds himself at a party where guests are in a state of deep agitation, all the faculties of his detective genius are called into play. Why is the host of the party, southern aristocrat Henry Maynard, so cryptic about the strange goings-on in the mansion? And how is the theft of the scarecrow linked to a diabolical and ingenious murder?
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A contrived mystery,
This review is from: Dark of the Moon (Carr, John Dickson) (Paperback)
A lesser Carr from his late period. Fans may still like this mansion mystery, as it has the typical Carr ingredients - humour, romance and impossible murder - but in much more contrived form than usual. And I can't help the feeling that there's something very fishy in the murder solution, which in Carr's case, doesn't answer "who did it" but "how it was done".
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Captain Ashcroft, Henry Maynard, Bob Crandall, Yancey Beale, Maynard Hall, Valerie Huret, Miss Bruce, Mark Sheldon, Rip Hillboro, Fort Moultrie, Alan Grantham, Madge Maynard, Fort Sumter, Sergeant Duckworth, New York, Camilla Bruce, Commodore Maynard, James Island, Miss Maynard, Grand Goblin, Fort Johnson Road, Luke Maynard, Richard Maynard, Gideon Fell, Sullivan's Island New!
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Captain Ashcroft, Henry Maynard, Bob Crandall, Yancey Beale, Maynard Hall, Valerie Huret, Miss Bruce, Mark Sheldon, Rip Hillboro, Fort Moultrie, Alan Grantham, Madge Maynard, Fort Sumter, Sergeant Duckworth, New York, Camilla Bruce, Commodore Maynard, James Island, Miss Maynard, Grand Goblin, Fort Johnson Road, Luke Maynard, Richard Maynard, Gideon Fell, Sullivan's Island New!
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- Fort Sumter (Famous Forts Throughout American History) by Charles W. Maynard on 7 pages
- The Gold-Bug by Edgar Allan Poe on page 148, page 159, and page 244
- Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe on page 159
- The Black Cat and Other Stories (Penguin Readers, Level 3) by Edgar Allen Poe on page 159
- The Curse of the Bronze Lamp by John Dickson Carr in Front Matter
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- Captain Cut-Throat (Carr, John Dickson) by John Dickson Carr in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Papa La-Bas (Carr, John Dickson) by John Dickson Carr in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Tattoo (Thompson, Earl) by Earl Thompson in Back Matter
- South Carolina Trivia Revised And Updated by Al Menendez on page 121
- The Curse of the Bronze Lamp by John Dickson Carr in Front Matter
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