The Third Bullet
by John Dickson Carr
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This is a collection of short mystery stories most of which centre around the locked door genre. In each story, someone is involved in a murder and either is facing charges themself or a friend is in trouble. The last story, "The Gentleman From France" is about a man who comes to America to convince an elderly woman to change her will to save the woman he loves in France from death by an illness. Once the will is changed it disappeared in a room that has been guarded. It must be in the room but where.
The young man goes to a tavern to tell a drunken friend about his loss when the friend asks him question about the room and the elderly woman. The friend figures out where the will is and after rushing back to retrieve it from the fireplace show more where it is hidden, he learns the drunk who assisted him was Edgar Allen Poe.
The other six stories follow a similar format but are all set in England. show less
The young man goes to a tavern to tell a drunken friend about his loss when the friend asks him question about the room and the elderly woman. The friend figures out where the will is and after rushing back to retrieve it from the fireplace show more where it is hidden, he learns the drunk who assisted him was Edgar Allen Poe.
The other six stories follow a similar format but are all set in England. show less
Seven stories featuring locked room or impossible crimes which Carr was specialized in. All the stories were interesting, especially the last story, set in the 19th century America.
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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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