Death-Watch (A Dr. Gideon Fell Mystery) - Softcover

Carr, John Dickson

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9780060810405: Death-Watch (A Dr. Gideon Fell Mystery)

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ISBN 10: 0060810408 ISBN 13: 9780060810405

Publisher: HarperCollins, 1990

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Gideon Fell searches London for a gilt-painted creature who was present at the scene of a murder

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About the Author:

John Dickson Carr (1906–1977) was one of the most popular authors of Golden Age British-style detective novels. Born in Pennsylvania and the son of a US congressman, Carr graduated from Haverford College in 1929. Soon thereafter, he moved to England where he married an Englishwoman and began his mystery-writing career. In 1948, he returned to the US as an internationally known author. Carr received the Mystery Writers of America’s highest honor, the Grand Master Award, and was one of the few Americans ever admitted into the prestigious, but almost exclusively British, Detection Club.

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“There has probably never been, either in real life or in fiction, a more elaborately planned crime than this one.” —The New York Times
“Very few detective stories baffle me, but Mr. Carr’s always do.” —Agatha Christie
“Mr. Carr can lead us away from the small, artificial world of the ordinary detective plot into the menace of outer darkness. . . . Every sentence gives a thrill of positive pleasure.” —Dorothy L. Sayers

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