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Not entirely sure how I feel about this one. Normally, I like stagey and post-modern, but the light-heartedness of the caper seemed at odds with pathos of the motive.
Amusingly bizarre case starting with a batch of strange clues presented to Dr. Fell by three policemen. Has more the feel of Carr's comic Carter Dickson stories than his often grimmer ell stories.
Non so se dipende dalla traduzione ma ci sono alcune grosse imprecisioni: in almeno due occasioni i nomi dei protagonisti sono scambiati e ciò indispettisce molto durante la lettura; per il resto ad un certo punto diventa troppo confuso, il geniale dott. Fell quasi non appare e lo scioglimento non è per niente soddisfacente: non sempre in un giallo si sa che il colpevole viene punito per le più svariate ragioni (morali, di opportunità ecc) ma qui le considerazioni finali sono un po’ troppo buttate là e tirate via.
Jan 21, 2015Italian
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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*
- Tuhannen ja yhden yön salaisuus
- Original title
- The Arabian Nights Murder
- Original publication date
- 1936
- People/Characters
- Dr. Gideon Fell; Detective-Inspector John Carruthers; Assistant Commissioner Sir Herbert Armstrong; Superintendent Hadley; Miriam Wade; Geoffrey Wade (show all 22); Dr. William Augustus Illingworth; Gregory Mannering; Raymond Penderel; Harriet Kirkton; Jerry Wade; Sam Baxter; Ronald Holmes; Richard Butler; Pruen; Mrs. Anna Reilly; Warburton; Sgt. Hoskins; Sergeant Betts; Shattu; Aguinopoplos; George Dennison
- Important places
- London, England, UK; Wade Museum of Oriental Art; 1 Adelphi Terrace, London, England, UK
- Epigraph
- "You swear by the Beard of the Prophet. Then could not the teller of tales make us a curious story even out of a beard?"
- Arabian Nights' Entertainment
"I hesitated; and at length a single word, uttered distinctly but slowly, and as if breathlessly spoken, fell upon my ear; it was, 'Whiskers!' "
- Life of the Rev. R. H. Barham - First words
- Four men sat round a circular table in the big library at Number 1 Adelphi Terrace.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Then, with an untroubled appetite, all of them prepared for breakfast.
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