Dell Map Back mystery featuring Gideon Fell and an abandoned prison that becomes a killer's accomplice in murder.
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A Study in the Art of Mystery from a Thirties Master,
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This review is from: Hag's Nook (Dell Mapback #537) (Mass Market Paperback)
This is the first of the series of books about Dr.Gideon Fell that was written in 1933 and most of the series was written in the 30s and 40s though the last was published in 1965. Dr.Fell was one of the thirties Englishman who was educated at Eton and Cambridge/Oxford and was a expert on just about everything and knew just about anyone who was worth knowing. He lives out in the countryside of Lincolnshire, in an old house that is lit by oil lamp and in a house in the London suburbs. His main job seems to be the writing of a monumental tomb titled "The Drinking Habits of Britain from Ancient Times". I think it just gives him a reason to drink and get away from the wife.Dr. Fell is called in by the authorities whenever they have an 'improbably' or 'locked room murder'. Dr. Fell tries to help the authorities solve the crime themselves but in most cases they are to thick-headed to see what he saw five minutes after walking into the situation. Though he desires to solve problems by matters of scientific logic, some of his results are the synthesis of smoke and mirrors. This case related to the time honored story of the family descendent spending a night (or an hour) in the haunted ancestral home to get the family fortune and ending dying in the process while there are lots of witnesses, one of which you can be is the murderer. What may ruin this book for many is that they have seen this story (or read it) many times before. You have to read this book with the knowledge that when it was written in 1933 it was fresh and novel (no pun). For those who like the mystery movies of the thirties, like Hitchcock's "Thirty-Nine Steps", the sociological points of the novel, especially the way that Americans are described is priceless. Zeb Kantrowitz
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