The Peacock Feather Murders

My vote for my favourite HM novel by John Dickson Carr. I think it's the way he starts off with possibly his most extraordinary idea for a murder - the set up, the setting, the situation - and then builds on it. At the time of reading I had a theory that Carr was genuinely trying to take the book to yet more extraordinary levels of excitement at the end of each chapter because by the end of the book you're almost breathless at the invention of the whole thing. HM's humour also is at it's best and least jarring and for my money it stands with "The Hollow Man" as Carr at the peak of his substantial writing form. Absolutely one of my most cherished crime novels ever.

Another version of the Peaacock Feather Murders. Interesting for trilingual blub on dj.

See other coy. A man lured to his death by the promise of a (nonexistent) secret society whose members share sex --including (he thinks) a woman he desires.

author also writes as John Dickson Carr

"Habrá diez tazas de té en el número 4 de Barwick Terrace, W. 3, el miércoles 31 de julio, a las diecisiete en punto. Rogamos a la policía metropolitana que nos honre con su presencia".
Tal es el mensaje que un día se recibe en Scotlad Yard. Pero la casa está deshabilitada y la amable invitación no es una invitación, ni tampoco es la primera. Dos años antes, fue enviada otra similar: dos años antes en otra casa desocupada se produjo el primer asesinato de una serie que continuaría inexplicablemente.

Dos hombres son asesinados de un tiro a corta distancia , con una diferencia de un año de tiempo, en una casa desocupada. Ambas muertes intrigan al Scotland Yard, pues estos asesinatos fueron cometidos bajo circunstancias imposibles

Sir Henry Merrivale deberá enfrentar un caso de asesinato en un recinto cerrado . Un hombre es visto entrando en unn cuarto. Se oyen tiros, el hombre está muerto — pero por dónde se fue el asesino ?

Ciertamente no por la puerta o la ventana . Dickson nos ofrece el argumento de un crimen impenetrable y casi increíble La solución del caso es tan impresionante como el argumento de este policial.

A Sir Henry Merrivale mystery from the master of the locked room puzzle. Vance Keating is murdered in the only furnished room in an otherwise vacant house -- after Scotland Yard has searched and carefully watched the house following a warning from the murderer. The boards have some minor rubs and dings, but the book is square, tight and attractive. The extremely scarce dust jacket has two chips in the upper edge of the front panel, not affecting any lettering and modest general wear, but is bright and unfaded. Very difficult title, especially in dust jacket