The three coffins / John Dickson Carr ; introduction by Otto Penzler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carr, John Dickson, 1906-1977, author.

Series:

Otto Penzler's classic American mystery library

American mystery classics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fell, Gideon (Fictitious character)--Fiction.

Fell, Gideon (Fictitious character).

Private investigators--England--Fiction.

Private investigators.

Murder--Investigation--Fiction.

Murder.

Genre:

Detective and mystery fiction.

Physical Description:

x, 292 pages : illustration ; 22 cm

Other Title:

3 coffins

Place of Publication:

New York : Penzler Publishers, 2024.

Summary:

"Dr. Gideon Fell solves two impossible murders in one of the most baffling locked room mysteries ever created. Professor Charles Grimaud is found dead in his study just moments after his housekeeper watched him greet a mysterious visitor and welcome him into the room. Yet no sign of the murderer or murder weapon can be found. The housekeeper saw no one leave through the door and the snow outside the only window remains unblemished. An equally puzzling murder has occurred outside, in the middle of the street: The illusionist Pierre Fley was walking alone in a snow-covered cul-de-sac when witnesses heard someone shout "The second bullet is for you!" followed by a gunshot. He is found dead, with the revolver that killed both Grimaud and himself by his side and no footprints in the surrounding snow but his own. It appears that both murders must have been committed by a specter?someone not only invisible but lighter than air. But if anyone can find a rational explanation, it is brilliant amateur sleuth Dr. Gideon Fell. In a 1981 survey of mystery experts, The Three Coffins (called The Hollow Man in the UK) was voted the best locked room mystery of all time. It is also celebrated for a scene in which Carr's iconic detective Gideon Fell delivers a speech expounding upon the dozens of methods and variations by which apparently impossible murders may be accomplished. Any fan of locked room mysteries and impossible crimes should consider this book required reading"--Amazon.ca.

ISBN:

9781613165850

1613165854

9781613165867

1613165862

OCLC:

1430414479