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Title: The Judas Window by Carter Dickson ISBN: 0-930330-62-5 Publisher: Independent Pub Group Pub. Date: 01 June, 1987 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.83 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Classic detection and the best courtroom drama ever
Comment: Jimmy Answell is summoned for an audience with Avory Hume. The two men are later discovered after witnesses break into Hume's study - a room with bolted steel shutters and a heavy door locked on the inside. Answell is found lying unconscious and Hume stabbed to death with an arrow. How can young Answell but be guilty? How could Sir Henry Merrivale (H.M.!) be foolhardy enough to undertake his defence at the Old Bailey? And what is the 'Judas Window' to which H.M. keeps alluding?
This is John Dickson Carr (aka Carter Dickson), the acknowledged master of the locked room mystery, in top form. The quality of the puzzle in The Judas Window is superior to that in The Three Coffins (popularly regarded as Carr's best book and the most famous locked room murder mystery). The case unfolds through the medium of a riveting courtroom drama that simply ought to have been filmed. The comic touches provided by H.M. as defence counsel are terrific. And the modus operandi of the crime is stunning in its simplicity and the conviction it carries. Less convincing however (and this is what makes the book stop just short of perfection) is the murderer's motive. But this flaw makes only a ripple in the overall masterly construction of the mystery.
Don't miss it!
Rating: 5
Summary: Locked Room Classic
Comment: Carter Dickson (also known as John Dickson Carr) created another wonderful golden age locked room mystery in his novel, The Judas Window. Sir Henry Marrivale is the sleuth and he is, as always, a dependable joy. The author has surrounded him with an able cast of supporting characters to help nudge the story along. The triumph, of course, and the reason for this book's existence is the locked room crime. Carter Dickson knows how to tease the mystery and drama out of this glorious cliche, making it seem fresh and new. This is a classic from a thrilling time in mystery writing by a true master of the form. Not to be missed.
Rating: 5
Summary: Nearly perfect locked room mystery
Comment: Dickson and John Dickson Carr are the same. He specialized in Locked Room mysteries. In various polls in mystery mags he always ends up at the top of locked room mysteries. I like this the best of his novels, but the Hollw Man (under Carr) is usually considered the best. His short story "The House in Goblin Wood" is I think even better -- simply the best locked room story ever.
Other writers to look for in locked rooms: Clayton Rawson, Ellery Queen (sometimes a locked room).
Ishould point out that as a novel aside from the puzzle its not very interesting. You read these things for the mystery and the detective!
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Title: Merrivale Holds the Key: Two Classic Locked-Room Mysteries : The Plague Court Murders/the Red Widow Murders (Library of Crime Classics) by Carter Dickson ISBN: 1558820272 Publisher: International Polygonics Pub. Date: 01 November, 1995 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Mad Hatter Mystery (Dr. Gideon Fell Mystery) by John Dickson Carr ISBN: 0060809973 Publisher: Harpercollins Pub. Date: 01 August, 1989 List Price(USD): $4.95 |
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Title: The case of the constant suicides by John Dickson Carr ISBN: 0020184700 Publisher: Collier Books Pub. Date: 1985 List Price(USD): $3.50 |
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Title: My Late Wives by Carter Dickson ISBN: 0821723847 Publisher: Zebra Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 1988 List Price(USD): $3.50 |
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Title: The Reader Is Warned (Crime Classic) by Carter Dickson ISBN: 1558820191 Publisher: Independent Pub Group Pub. Date: 01 November, 1989 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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