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The Problem of the Wire Cage: A Gideon Fell Mystery

The Problem of the Wire Cage: A Gideon Fell Mystery

Carr, John Dickson
Johnson, Rian

Paperback

Series: Dr. Gideon Fell

Mystery & Thriller

Publisher Price: $15.95

ISBN10: 1613164874
ISBN13: 9781613164877
Publisher: American Mystery Classics
Published: Jan 2 2024
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.65
Height: 1.10 Width: 5.40 Depth: 7.60
Language: English
Death and tennis meet in one of impossible crime master John Dickson Carr's most memorable cases.

John Dickson Carr is famous for his puzzling impossible crime plots, in which corpses are discovered in scenarios that seem to lack any logical explanation, concealing clues as to how the murder was committed and how the body arrived in its current setting.

Among all of Carr's ingenious crime scenes, the present case is one of his best known: a dead man is found strangled in the middle of a clay tennis court, just after a storm. In the damp dirt, there is one set of footsteps--his own--leading back to the grass; the court is otherwise untouched. There are no trees above from which the body may have fallen and no other visible means by which it may have been transported to its final resting place. Before determining the perpetrator of the strangulation, the local authorities are first confronted by the utter implausibility of the location--two interlocking questions puzzling enough to stump even the most seasoned inspector.

The bafflement is reaching a harried volley by the time amateur sleuth Dr Gideon Fell gets involved, but he soon shows that the knotted plot is no match for his deductive powers. Before he can serve up a dazzling explanation of whodunnit, though, Fell will have to sort through a confounding set of clues in search of a diabolical killer and a bizarre murder method.

Reissued for the first time this century, The Problem of the Wire Cage is an atmospheric and amusing Golden Age mystery with a memorable puzzle at its centre. It's sure to please long-time fans of John Dickson Carr and is also a great entry point into his beloved Gideon Fell series.

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