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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 823
EAN num: 9781601870216
ISBN number: 1601870213
Label: Rue Morgue Press
Manufacturer: Rue Morgue Press
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 192
Printing Date: March 15, 2008
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The novels of H.M., which were written by John Dickson Carr(using the name Carter Dickson), range usually from "Great(The Peacock Feather Murders)", to "Awfull(Seeing is Believing). This is the only H.M. I could rate as "Near Perfect".
Jimmy Answell is on trial for murder. Its belived he murdered his future father-in-law, Avory Hume, by stabbing him with an arrow. Jimmy was invited to Avory's house, and taken into his strong room. Avory comes in, locks the door, prepares a scottch, and shows Jimmy some of his archery trophys, including three arrows nailed in a triangle. Suddenly, Jimmy's head begins to spin. He fall's out cold. When Jimmy wakes up, Avory has been stabbed, one of the arrows has been pryed off the walls.
Suddenly, Jimmy is on trial for murder, and every one thinks he's guilty. Every one, except Sir Henry Merrivale, who see's a Judas Window in the room, a secret exit that only the murderer can see. But can he prove Jimmy inocent?
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This is one of the finest mystery novels ever written, and I am more than a bit disappointed not to see more rave reviews of it on this page. It is arguably the high point of the brilliant career of John Dickson Carr (alias Carter Dickson), the greatest writer of "locked room" mysteries and in many people's opinion the greatest writer of the "Golden Age" of mystery novels (the 1930s and 40s). It features the detective H.M. (Sir Henry Merrivale), my personal favorite fictional detective of them all. His brilliance and irascibility is only exceeded by his basic good-heartedness and desire to see the innocent protected. Oh, he is wildly funny, as well.
This novel features an unsurpassably brilliant and baffling crime, and a fantastic assortment of 'red herrings' in the form of untrustworthy potential murderers. Carr/ Dickson really did virtually perfect the form of the mystery novel, and in an era when mystery novels are so popular it is a shame that his contributions to the genre are not more widely recognized, if not worshipped!
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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!
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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.
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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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