Name: The Eight of Swords

Author: John Dickson Carr
Year: 1934
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Mystery

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ISBNs:
9780821718810
0821718819		 Dr. Fell, detective extraordinary, is back again, more amusing and omniscient than ever. In The Eight of Swords he is faced with the sort of problem in which his acute and devious mind delights.

When a gay spirit took to playing strange pranks in the haunted bedroom at the Grange and the Bishop was seen sliding down the banisters, Scotland Yard was more amused than disturbed. But when Depping, the harmless old scholar and connoisseur of wines and foods, was found murdered in his study, they sent Dr. Fell down to investigate. As soon as Dr. Fell saw the card representing the eight of swords, the partially eaten dinner on the tray, and the button-hook which had been used to blow the fuses, he knew the murderer. But there was a great deal to be explained before he could prove it, and his solution will remain a classic example of deductive reasoning combined with thrilling plot. The book is also filled with a subtle type of humor that makes it something different in the way of detective novels.
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"The Sleeping Sphinx"
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"Death Turns the Tables"
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"The Problem of the Wire Cage"
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"The Problem of the Green Capsule"
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"The Crooked Hinge"
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"The Arabian Nights Murder"
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"The Three Coffins"
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"Death-Watch"
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"The Blind Barber"
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"Hag's Nook"
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The Three Coffins by John Dickson Carr
He Who Whispers by John Dickson Carr
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The Hollow Man by John Dickson Carr
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To Wake the Dead by John Dickson Carr
Till Death Do Us Part by John Dickson Carr
The Sleeping Sphinx by John Dickson Carr
The Blind Barber by John Dickson Carr
The Arabian Nights Murder by John Dickson Carr
The Man Who Could Not Shudder by John Dickson Carr
Below Suspicion by John Dickson Carr
Death-Watch by John Dickson Carr
Death Turns the Tables by John Dickson Carr
Dark of the Moon by John Dickson Carr
The Problem of the Wire Cage by John Dickson Carr
Panic in Box C by John Dickson Carr
The House at Satan's Elbow by John Dickson Carr
In Spite of Thunder by John Dickson Carr
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