The Nine Wrong Answers
by John Dickson Carr
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Carr's forte is the rational crime problem costumed as an eerie tale of the seemingly supernatural. This tale set in London is an elaborate puzzle that concerns a large inheritance and contains a wonderful scene at Sherlock Holmes' rooms on Baker Street.Tags
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The reader gets nine chances to solve this convoluted murder before the writer has mercy on us to sort it out. It is fun. the book was written in 1952, so I clearly read an earlier edition.
A non-series story more like an adventure novel than the usual Carr mystery. A broe WW@ vet Bill Donovan is hired to impersonate another man who is then poisoned. Bill flies to London from NYC on a false passport, meets a mysterious young woman, and has a climactic encounter in the reproduction of Sherlock Holmes' rooms in Baker Street (then recently created).
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John Dickson Carr, the master of locked room mysteries, was born in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, in 1906. He was educated at Haverford College and the Sorbonne in Paris. Carr is a prolific writer with more than 80 novels and collections of short stories to his credit. He began his writing career at the age of 26 with his first published novel, It show more Walks At Night. Some of his most popular works are The Three Coffins (1935), The Burning Coat (1937), and The Bride of Newgate (1951). Carr also collaborated with Adrian Doyle, the son of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes (1954). Carr met his wife in 1932 and settled in England in 1933. He was drafted by the United States military in World War II, and was ordered to remain in England and work with the BBC. He lived in many cities throughout the world until 1967, when he permanently moved to Greenville, South Carolina. John Dickson Carr also wrote mystery novels under the name Carter Dickson. He died in Greenville in 1977. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title*
- Yhdeksän väärää vastausta
- Original title
- The Nine Wrong Answers
- Original publication date
- 1952
- People/Characters
- Bill Dawson; Larry Hurst; Joy Tennent; Marjorie Blair; Gaylord Hurst
- Important places
- New York, New York, USA; London, England, UK
- Dedication
- For Val Gielgud
- First words
- When he heard those odd words through the open transom, Dawson sat up straight in his chair.
- Original language
- English US
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- Members
- 178
- Popularity
- 182,061
- Reviews
- 2
- Rating
- (3.64)
- Languages
- 6 — English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian (Bokmål)
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 7
- UPCs
- 1
- ASINs
- 12
