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Le fantôme frappe trois coups by Carr-J.d
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Le fantôme frappe trois coups (edition 1989)

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Series: Sir Henry Merrivale (11)

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A thriller about a transatlantic ocean liner crossing submarine-infested seas.
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Title:Le fantôme frappe trois coups
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Info:Editions du Masque (1989), 188 pages
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Nine — and Death Makes Ten by Carter Dickson

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From the back cover: January 1940. The early days of the war. The liner 'Edwardic' sets sail from New York to a "British port" ,its name withheld for security, on the other side of the submarine infested Atlantic. Formerly a luxury ship, the Edwardic has been converted into a munitions carrier. Because of the inherent danger with such cargo, the vessel -although fully staffed - only carries nine passengers. One passenger is a victim. A second is a murderer whose bloody fingerprints are found at the scene of the crime. The solution should be simple, opines a traveling criminologist. Fingerprint everyone on board and see whose prints match those in the blood stained cabin. Not so simple. Each person's prints are taken, none matches those found. Nine passengers and death makes ten! Fortunately, the ninth passenger is none other than Sir Henry Merrivale.

For this 1940 novel, author John Dickson Carr drew on this own experiences crossing the Atlantic at the outset of World War II.

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I read this book while I was in the middle of a major remodel, holed up in my bedroom with a cold. It was perfect! It kept me engaged, finished it in about a day and a half. SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER While I figured it was a case of someone impersonating someone else, I did not guess the details. As usual, John Dickson Carr pulled it off. This one is considered to be one of his best, for good reason. Keeping for PC. ( )
  PokPok | Nov 24, 2019 |
The mystery itself is not especially notable, but the setting is interesting -- a British liner crossing the Atlantic with a load of explosives and 9 passengers in 1940, before the US entered the war. The preface says it is based on the author's experience making a similar crossing (without the explosives, or the murder). ( )
1 vote antiquary | Sep 18, 2014 |
The mystery was OK, but what I particularly appreciated about this book was the vivid setting: the blacked-out ship loaded with munitions, traveling across the vast sea with danger looming.
1 vote biscuits | Oct 3, 2010 |
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This story is dedicated, as it should be, to fellow-passengers aboard M.V. Georgic, in memory of a crossing we made from New York to "a British port" during the early days of the war.
The crossing took place under much the same black-out and life-jacket conditions as are described here. But there all resemblance to reality ceases. The date was September, 1939; not January, 1940. The ship was not carrying munitions. There were no such regrettable goings-on as occur in these pages. No character in the story — whether passenger, officer, or member of the crew — bears the remotest relation to any living person. In short, everything except the atmosphere is a complete piece of fantasy from beginning to end.
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Painted battleship-gray, the liner lay by the pier at the foot of West Twentieth Street.
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This work was first published with the title, Nine --- and Death Makes Ten in 1940. It was subsequently published in paperback in the US with the title Murder in the Submarine Zone and in the UK with the title Murder in the Atlantic
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Nine passengers and a number of crew are crossing the Atlantic from New York during late 1939. Soon, one of the passengers has her throat cut, but luckily the murderer has left two very obvious bloody fingerprints at the scene. One thorough examination of the crew and passengers later, and the fingerprints match no-one on board. There are no stowaways, so how were the fingerprints made? And, more importantly, why? Luckily, the Old Man, Sir Henry Merrivale himself, happens to be the ninth passenger.
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