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Rather typical Carter Dickson (John Dickson Carr) mystery but worth it for the scene at the church festival.
Not one of my favorites in this series. A rather painfully awkward new vicar mishandles a slander case.
En la aldea inglesa de Stoke Druid había aparecido un brote de anónimos. Todos en el pueblo habían recibido cartas de la Viuda Burlona, veneno puro en el que se mezclaban medias verdades e infundios. Y a la vista estaban los primeros resultados: Miss Martin no pudo soportar las acusaciones y se tiró al río. Pero la Viuda Burlona no se sentía satisfecha y seguía mandando basura por correo. Sólo un investigador tan eficaz y tan excéntrico como sir Henry Merrivale podía desenmascarar a la Viuda y acabar con la plaga.
Nov 23, 2022Spanish
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A Locked Room Library
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230+ Works 18,954 Members
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
- Night at the Mocking Widow
- Original title
- Night at the Mocking Widow
- Original publication date
- 1952
- People/Characters
- Sir Henry Merrivale; Inspector Garlick; Reverend J. Cadman Hunter; Marion Taylor; Joan Bailey; Gordon West (show all 9); Squire Tom Wyatt; Colonel Bishop; Stella Lacey
- Important places
- Stoke Druid, Somerset, England, UK; Somerset, England, UK
- Dedication
- For Garney and Cynthia who are well acquainted with Stoke Druid
- First words
- When murder occurs in an English village, which it does far more frequently than is known by those who have not troubled to study the history of crime, people usually feel the shock worse because of the village's intense resp... (show all)ectability.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Then he turned round and went back.
- Blurbers
- Christie, Agatha
- Original language*
- English
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- 175
- Popularity
- 186,982
- Reviews
- 3
- Rating
- (3.59)
- Languages
- 5 — English, French, Norwegian (Bokmål), Norwegian, Spanish
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 6
- ASINs
- 18
