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For Clayton Rawson  For
Clayton Rawson Dear Clayt:
I offer you this little story because of our mutual interest in tricks and impossibilities. For the sake of verisimilitude much of the action has been made to occur in real places. It is hardly necessary to add, however, that there is no William Rufus College at Southampton University, no hospital at Backfield; and that, though Lepe Beach does very much exist - it may be reached by bus from Southampton - both Satan's Elbow and Greengrove, like the characters of the story itself, have no existence in Hampshire and could not exist anywhere outside of my own distorted fancy.
Yours as ever, John Dickson Carr
Lyminton, Hants, September 1964 Dear Clayt:
I offer you this little story because of our mutual interest in tricks and impossibilities. For the sake of verisimilitude much of the action has been made to occur in real places. It is hardly necessary to add, however, that there is no William Rufus College at Southampton University, no hospital at Blackfield; and that, though Lepe Beach does very much exist - it may be reached by bus from Southampton - both Satan's Elbow and Greengrove, like the characters of the story itself, have no existence in Hampshire and could not exist anywhere outside of my distorted fancy.
yours as ever,
John Dickson Carr
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And so, early on that Friday evening in June, Garret Anderson packed a bag in his flat at Hampstead and rang for a taxi to take him to waterloo. And so, Early on that Friday evening in June, Garret Anderson packed a bag in his flat at Hampstead and rang for a taxi to take him to Waterloo. | |
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to the Combiners:
Since this book came out before ISBNs, I had to search for it by title - it came back with about a dozen hits, most coverless.
So I picked one and used the isbn on the spine (obviously it will be a 0 since it was published in the States.)
might want to combine the mess down into one copy. To the Combiners:
I had to search this one by title as it is to early for ISBNS, there were a couple of dozen listings -so I picked one with the right pub date for my copy.
Might want to see if they can be combined or eliminated.
the entered isbn is from the spine. It is published in America so the prefix is obviously 0 | |
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Garret Anderson, a historian, has enjoyed an unexpected financial windfall when one of his historical biographies is turned into a smash-hit musical. At loose ends, he agrees to visit an old friend's family home in Hampshire, England to bear witness to some unusual happenings. A missing family will is at the heart of matters, but things are also complicated by someone who is playing the role of the ghost of Mr. Justice Wildfare, 18th century hanging judge and family ancestor. When the head of the family is shot with a blank cartridge by a shadowy figure who vanishes through a locked window, and is later shot again, this time more seriously, Gideon Fell is called in to explain the bizarre events and bring them home to the criminal.
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The House at Satan's Elbow
An ancestral mansion, an eighteenth century hanging judge, a lost family will...
A beautiful young widow, a disputed heir to millions, an eccentric old woman with psychic powers...
a gun, a locked room - a murder!
The ingredients of the "Impossible" crime!
Unless, as the dead man's sister stubbornly insists, he was murdered by a vengeful ghost!
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Enter Dr. Gideon Fell
Armed with his ever-present cigar and cane, Gideon Fell surveyed the scene of the crime. As horror piled on horror through the night, the detective showed interest in one person only - a long-departed ancestor of the corpse.
But Fell was not really concentrating on the supernatural - as one terrified member of the house would soon find out... The House at Satan's Elbow
An ancestral mansion, an eighteenth-century hanging judge, a lost family will...
A beautiful young widow, a disputed heir to millions, an eccentric old woman with psychic powers...
A gun, a locked room - a murder!
The ingredients of the "impossible" crime! - Unless, as the dead man's sister stubbornly insists, he was murdered by a vengeful ghost!
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Enter Dr. Gideon Fell
Armed with his ever-present cigar and cane, Gideon Fell surveyed the scene of the crime. As horror piled on horror through the night, the detective showed interest in on person only - a long-departed ancestor of the corpse.
But Fell was not really concentrating on the supernatural - as one terrified member of the house would soon find out... | |
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