The Red Widow Murders: A Sir Henry Merrivale Mystery
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John Dickson Carr. (2023). The Red Widow Murders: A Sir Henry Merrivale Mystery. Penzler Publishers.

John Dickson Carr. 2023. The Red Widow Murders: A Sir Henry Merrivale Mystery. Penzler Publishers.

John Dickson Carr, The Red Widow Murders: A Sir Henry Merrivale Mystery. Penzler Publishers, 2023.

John Dickson Carr. The Red Widow Murders: A Sir Henry Merrivale Mystery. Penzler Publishers, 2023.

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   • bioText: John Dickson Carr (1906-1977) was one of the greatest writers of the American Golden Age mystery, and one of the only American authors to be included in England's legendary Detection Club. Though he was born and died in the United States, Carr began his writing career while living in England, where he remained for nearly twenty years. Under his own name and various pseudonyms, he wrote more than seventy novels and numerous short stories, and is best known today for his locked-room mysteries. His beloved series character, Dr. Gideon Fell, was based on author G. K. Chesterton and appeared in twenty-four novels.
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   • bioText: Tom Mead is a Derbyshire mystery writer and aficionado of Golden Age crime fiction. His debut novel, Death and the Conjuror, was an international bestseller, nominated for several awards, and named one of the best mysteries of the year by The Guardian and Publishers Weekly. Its sequel, The Murder Wheel, was described as "pure nostalgic pleasure" by the Wall Street Journal and "a delight" by the Daily Mail. It was also named one of the Best Traditional Mysteries of 2023 by CrimeReads. His third novel, Cabaret Macabre, will be published in 2024.
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In this baffling whodunnit from the master of the locked-room mystery, a man falls dead in a guarded room, and Sir Henry Merrivale searches for a devilishly-clever killer.

They say that Lord Mantling's mansion is haunted — at least, one room of it is. Known as the Red Widow's Chamber, the now-sealed quarters once housed the wife of a guillotine operator in the French Revolution, and, since her passing, have been host to a century of unsolved horrors, including the death of a man in 1802, the death of a child in 1895, and a number of mysterious mortalities in the years in between.

Now, in 1935, eight men and women join at the manor for a sinister experiment to determine the truth behind the haunting once and for all: they each draw a card, and whoever pulls the Ace of Spades must spend a night in that terrifying room. But the challenge turns fatal when the man selected for the task is found poisoned the next morning when the doors are opened. The locked room was guarded all night, so nobody could have entered or escaped; what's more, the deadly toxin could only have entered through a break in the skin, but no wounds were discovered on the body.

Is this evidence, at last, of a nefarious spirit at work, or of a diabolical and ingenious killer? Only Sir Henry Merrivale, called in to take note of the night's proceedings, will be able to examine the clues and deduce the truth.

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   • source: Agatha Christie
   • content: Very few detective stories baffle me nowadays, but Mr. Carr's always do.
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   • source: Publishers Weekly STARRED REVIEW
   • content: Carr provides vital clues in plain view that will elude most readers. Fair-play fans will be eager for more reissues in the American Mystery Classics series from this master of the impossible crime.
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     Starred review from January 23, 2023
     How could a room only be deadly for a solitary individual? That’s the baffling question at the heart of this ingenious 1935 mystery from Carr (1906–1977). Lord Mantling invites Sir Henry Merrivale to test a curse at his London home, which contains a room that’s been locked and sealed for 60 years. Over the decades, four healthy people entered it alone, only to be found dead, apparently from poison, but no source of the toxin was ever found, and the chamber was harmless to anyone not alone in it. The aristocrat’s grandfather died inexplicably in 1876, and Mantling’s father’s will dictated that the deadly room remain off-limits while the house still stood. With the property scheduled for demolition, Mantling has members of his household and some guests draw cards to determine who will spend time locked in the room. But despite Merrivale’s presence and all possible access points tightly sealed, the experiment’s subject dies from curare poisoning. Carr provides vital clues in plain view that will elude most readers. Fair-play fans will be eager for more reissues in the American Mystery Classics series from this master of the impossible crime.

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     February 15, 2023
     The prolific Carr, writing as Carter Dickson, penned the extensive Sir Henry Merrivale (H. M.) series between 1934 and 1953. He stands out among the Golden Age crime writers for his perfection of the locked-room mystery. Carr's talent is on full display in this entry in Otto Penzler's American Mystery Classics, which includes an outstanding introduction in which Tom Mead praises Carr's "effortlessly readable prose" and his Poe-like tendency to revel in the macabre. A man is found poisoned in a locked room, a haunted room, "a room that kills," the Red Widow's Chamber, which was sealed up following four unholy events there in the nineteenth century. It is now the 1930s. The victim was part of a group of eight oddly assorted people, including H. M., who had gathered downstairs, drawing cards until whoever pulled the ace of spades was required to spend the night in the accursed room. And now that person is dead. H. M. rumbles and grumbles his way through to a solution once again. A classic, indeed.

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In this baffling whodunnit from the master of the locked-room mystery, a man falls dead in a guarded room, and Sir Henry Merrivale searches for a devilishly-clever killer.

They say that Lord Mantling's mansion is haunted — at least, one room of it is. Known as the Red Widow's Chamber, the now-sealed quarters once housed the wife of a guillotine operator in the French Revolution, and, since her passing, have been host to a century of unsolved horrors, including the death of a man in 1802, the death of a child in 1895, and a number of mysterious mortalities in the years in between.

Now, in 1935, eight men and women join at the manor for a sinister experiment to determine the truth behind the haunting once and for all: they each draw a card, and whoever pulls the Ace of Spades must spend a night in that terrifying room. But the challenge turns fatal when the man selected for the task is found poisoned the next morning when the doors are opened....

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