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Coming to London in 1670, young Roderick Kinsmere quickly loses his fortune, finds a wife, and becomes tangled in a mass of plots and counterplots at King Charles II's Whitehall Palace
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First published January 1, 1964
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John Dickson Carr
428 books500 followersAKA Carter Dickson, Carr Dickson and Roger Fairbairn.
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 debuted in The Plague Court Murders (1934).
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 debuted in The Plague Court Murders (1934).
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August 26, 2017
An entertaining late career historical mystery by one of the Classic Era's greatest. This is hardly his best, but there are interesting things happening, such as:
*A simple, yet solid, old fashioned fair play mystery embedded inside a lot of mayhem.
*A commitment to period accurate language and settings.
*Modern-style political ambivalence within an old fashioned Dumas style story.
*Reference to that time the Sun King compromised Charles II thereby gaining leverage over a traditionally hostile government (which is something I've been thinking about quite a bit recently).
But mostly, it's a gloriously silly adventure book.
*A simple, yet solid, old fashioned fair play mystery embedded inside a lot of mayhem.
*A commitment to period accurate language and settings.
*Modern-style political ambivalence within an old fashioned Dumas style story.
*Reference to that time the Sun King compromised Charles II thereby gaining leverage over a traditionally hostile government (which is something I've been thinking about quite a bit recently).
But mostly, it's a gloriously silly adventure book.
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