Carter Dickson Pořadí knih (chronologicky)

«¿Cree usted –había dicho sin preámbulo–, que una habitación puede matar?». Esta pregunta, viniendo de sir George Anstruther, hombre consagrado a la ciencia y director del Museo Británico, le parece al doctor Tairlaine el preludio de un razonamiento filosófico. Pero luego, ya metido en la aventura, sabe de la existencia de un testamento que prohíbe abrir una estancia, cerrada desde la muerte de un antepasado, a riesgo de perder la herencia.

«¿Cree usted –había dicho sin preámbulo–, que una habitación puede matar?». Esta pregunta, viniendo de sir George Anstruther, hombre consagrado a la ciencia y director del Museo Británico, le parece al doctor Tairlaine el preludio de un razonamiento filosófico. Pero luego, ya metido en la aventura, sabe de la existencia de un testamento que prohíbe abrir una estancia, cerrada desde la muerte de un antepasado, a riesgo de perder la herencia.

When Bennett's uncle, the cantankerous amateur sleuth Sir Henry Merrivale arrives from London to make sense of this impossible crime, the reader is treated to a feast of the author's trademark twists, beguiling false answers and one of the most ingenious solutions in the history of the mystery genre.

Voodoo Drums! Dennis's dreams vibrated with their message of death... Suddenly a hand touched his heaving body. He was shocked awake. Beryl West was standing over him. "Bruce has disappeared," she sobbed. Dennis stared at the girl. Her cry echoed in the eerie light of the half-darkened room. An unknown author had written a play about a murderer and sent it to actor Bruce Ransom. Bruce like it, but his friends Beryl West and Dennis Foster thought the ending unreal. To prove that they were wrong, Bruce proceeded to impersonate the killer in real life. Suddenly his part got out of hand. He had rung up the curtain on a scene called Murder!

Book by Dickson, Carter

Avory Hume is found stabbed to death with an arrow - in a study with bolted steel shutters and a heavy door locked from the inside. In the same room James Caplon Answell lies unconscious, his clothes disordered as though from a struggle, his fingerprints on the damning arrow.Here is the unique Carter Dickson "impossible situation" - yet the great, explosive Sir Henry Merrivale gets down to serious sleuthing and at last startles the crowd in the Old Bailey with a reconstruction of the crime along logical, convincing lines.H.M. in his most exciting case - an original, unconventional mystery, with a rich story background and a thrilling trial scene.