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The Man Who Could Not Shudder (Dr. Gideon Fell #12)
From back cover: They didn't believe in ghosts! What happens when six rational people are invited to Longwood House and one of them is murdered by a gun that comes off the wall by itself and hangs in mid air! Only Dr. Fell can solve the perplexing problem of who shot the man who could not shudder, and what he finds makes him destroy the evidence!
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I love John Dickson Carr but I'd never recommend him--he's terrible at character (particularly romance) and just got worse as he went on; some of his later books are so awful even I couldn't finish them. But I love his ingenuity at creating locked rooms, and in some of my favorites of his (The Crooked Hinge, The Reader is Warned, The Burning Court) he is terrific at creating a creepy atmosphere. The books from the thirties and early forties are usually the best.
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Very good – intricately plotted – does not play entirely fair. The solution is more provable than believable. You can piece together parts of the mystery but not the whole thing. It's a Dr. Gideon Fell mystery. The ending is morally problematic, as Carr's usually are. The real killer gets away though not for long. A nice bit of poetic justice. One would think the accidental killer would have some issues.
Not my favorite.
From back cover: They didn't believe in ghosts! What happens when six rational people are invited to Longwood House and one of them is murdered by a gun that comes off the wall by itself and hangs in mid air! Only Dr. Fell can solve the perplexing problem of who shot the man who could not shudder, and what he finds makes him destroy the evidence!
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Really great whodunit! The whole book is engaging, start to finish. The whole case is baffling. How do you find the killer when the gun from the wall jumps off the pegs and shoots? But the answer is so simple I feel foolish. Stick to the end, it's really worth it!
Another closed-door mystery solved by Fell. A fun read.
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AKA Carter Dickson.
John Dickson Carr was born in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, in 1906. It Walks by Night, his first published detective novel, featuring the Frenchman Henri Bencolin, was published in 1930. Apart from Dr Fell, whose first appearance was in Hag's Nook in 1933, Carr's other series detectives (published under the nom de plume of Carter Dickson) were the barrister Sir Henry Merrivale, who...more
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John Dickson Carr was born in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, in 1906. It Walks by Night, his first published detective novel, featuring the Frenchman Henri Bencolin, was published in 1930. Apart from Dr Fell, whose first appearance was in Hag's Nook in 1933, Carr's other series detectives (published under the nom de plume of Carter Dickson) were the barrister Sir Henry Merrivale, who...more
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