One of Carr/Dickson's best, this book combines the locked-room mystery with a courtroom drama. Jimmy Answell was found with a dead body in a room with all its doors and windows locked on the inside. Can Sir Henry Merrivale, as his defence counsel, show that he did not commit murder by stabbing the deceased with an arrow? You'll probably guess that he can do it, but the method and the actual criminal are harder to deduce. ( )

Fantastic cover design of a skeletal hand holding a poisoned and dripping arrow ( )