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Death-Watch (Paperback)
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Death-Watch (Paperback)
Series: Dr. Gideon Fell Mysteries, 5
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John Dickson Carr, a master of the Golden Age British-style mystery
novel, presents Dr. Gideon Fell's most chilling case, in which a
clock-obsessed killer terrorizes London A clockmaker is puzzled by
the theft of the hands of a monumental new timepiece he is
preparing for a member of the nobility. That night, one of the
stolen hands is found buried between a policeman's shoulder blades,
stopping his clock for all time. The crime is just peculiar enough
to catch the attention of Dr. Gideon Fell, the portly detective
whose formidable intellect is the terror of every criminal in
London. Working closely with Scotland Yard, he finds that the case
turns on the question of why the clock hands were stolen. And
learning the answer will put Dr. Fell squarely in the path of a
madman with nothing but time on his hands. "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 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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