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Professor Charles Grimaud is found dead in his study just moments after welcoming a mysterious visitor 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. Soon after, an...

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Main Author: Carr, John Dickson, 1906-1977 (Author)
Other Authors: Penzler, Otto (Writer of introduction)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Penzler Publishers, 2024.
Edition:[Trade paperback edition].
Series:Otto Penzler's classic American mystery library.
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Fell, Gideon (Fictitious character) > Fiction.
Murder > Investigation > Fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.
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Summary:Professor Charles Grimaud is found dead in his study just moments after welcoming a mysterious visitor 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. Soon after, an equally puzzling murder occurs outside: The Illusionist Pierre Fley is found dead in the street, 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.
Physical Description:x, 292 pages : illustration ; 21 cm
ISBN:9781613165867
1613165862
Author Notes:John Dickson Carr (1906-1977) was one of the greatest writers of the American Golden Age mystery, and one of the only American authors to be included in England's legendary Detection Club. Though he was born and died in the United States, Carr began his writing career while living in England, where he remained for nearly twenty years. Under his own name and various pseudonyms, he wrote more than seventy novels and numerous short stories, and is best known today for his locked-room mysteries. His beloved series character, Dr. Gideon Fell, was based on author G. K. Chesterton and appeared in twenty-four novels.

Otto Penzler is the founder and president of Penzler Publishers, which includes The Mysterious Press, American Mystery Classics, Crime Ink, and MysteriousPress.com. He is also the proprietor of The Mysterious Bookshop in New York City and is regarded as the world's foremost authority on crime, mystery and suspense fiction. He has won a Raven, the Ellery Queen Award, two Edgars (for the Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection , 1977, and The Lineup , 2010), and lifetime achievement awards from Noircon and The Strand Magazine . He has edited more than 80 anthologies and written extensively about mystery fiction.

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