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A curse shall befall anyone who takes the bronze lamp out of Egypt, so a seer has said. Lady Helen Loring thinks such tales are sheer poppycock. She takes the lamp back to England, she places it on the mantelpiece at Serven Hall, and she disappears, just as the seer said.Tags
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A marvelous take-off on the "mummy's curse" tradition and specifically the rumors of such a curse in relation to King Tut. It even has a happy ending, quite remarkably cheerful, with a subtle plot -- a real attempted murder within a deliberately faked one.. By far my favorite of the Merrivale stories.,
molto semplice ma non malissimo
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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
- Lord of the Sorcerers
- Original title
- The Curse of the Bronze Lamp
- Alternate titles
- Lord of the Sorcerers; The Curse of the Bronze Lamp
- Original publication date
- 1945
- People/Characters
- Sir Henry Merrivale; Lady Helen Loring
- Important places
- Severn Hall
- Dedication
- For ELLERY QUEEN
- First words
- In the drawing-room of a suite at the Continental-Savoy Hotel, Cairo, a girl and a young man waited for the telephone to ring.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)'You may admit the reporters,' he said.
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- Languages
- 7 — English, Finnish, French, Italian, Norwegian (Bokmål), Norwegian, Swedish
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 10
- ASINs
- 8
