Author: John Dickson Carr Year: 1941 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Mystery
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ISBNs: 9780930330224 0930330226 |
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Judge Horace Ireton didn't care about the letter of the law. He was interested in administering absolute, impartial justice as he saw it. To some, his methods of meting out justice made him seem hardly human, for they were coldly calculated - the same type of "cat and mouse" technique that he used in his chess games with Dr. Gideon Fell, the elephantine detective. The system, as he explained it, consisted in "letting your opponent think he's perfectly safe, winning hands down: and then catch him in a corner." But the system was not infallible. One day Judge Ireton was found with a pistol in his hand, beside the body of his daughter's fiancé, a man he had every reason to dislike, as many people knew; and he found that when one was on the inside looking out, the game had to be played differently.
This book is part of the "Dr. Gideon Fell" series. Here are some other books from this series:
 | "Dark of the Moon" First published in 1967 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Panic in Box C" First published in 1966 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "In Spite of Thunder" First published in 1960 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "The Dead Man's Knock" First published in 1958 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Below Suspicion" First published in 1949 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "The Sleeping Sphinx" First published in 1947 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "He Who Whispers" First published in 1946 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "To Wake the Dead" First published in 1938 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "The Crooked Hinge" First published in 1937 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "The Hollow Man" First published in 1935 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "The Three Coffins" First published in 1935 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Death-Watch" First published in 1935 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "The Eight of Swords" First published in 1934 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "The Blind Barber" First published in 1934 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Hag's Nook" First published in 1933 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
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