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title: "The Plague Court Murders: A Sir Henry Merrivale Mystery (An American Mystery Classic)"
brand: "john dickson carrmichael dirda"
price: "€ 39.25"
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reviews_count: 13
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# The Plague Court Murders: A Sir Henry Merrivale Mystery (An American Mystery Classic)

**Brand:** john dickson carrmichael dirda
**Price:** € 39.25
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    The murderer planned it like a detective story, says HM
  

*by P***O on Reviewed in the United States on February 10, 2021*

Sir Henry Merrivale (HM) revels in making outrageous statements. But his audience of policemen and concerned citizens are so clueless, they’re just grateful for any ideas.A psychical researcher, Roger Darworth, has himself locked up in a decrepit stone house, by the grave of a vicious ghost, for the purpose of exorcising that ghost. A small group of believers and disbelievers wait anxiously next door. When Darworth is hacked to death inside the tightly locked house, the police fail utterly to find an explanation. This is when they turn to the eccentric, irritating, but brilliant HM.Sir Merrivale is fat, lazy, garrulous, conceited, and fond of alcohol and bawdy stories. But he’s not fanciful. He says there ought to be a law against deadly gases unknown to science and poisons that leave no trace. He’s out to catch a clever murderer with a flair for elaborate staging.Although HM scorns ghosts, several of the characters don’t. And John Dickson Carr delivers plenty of ghostly chills, sinister atmosphere, and a wonderfully degenerate ghost who died horribly in the Plague years and is looking for a new body to possess!I’m afraid I found the solution of the locked room mystery awfully far-fetched. But the plot offers well drawn characters and tantalizing red herrings. And HM is always fun.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    I used to read John Dickson Carr decades ago.
  

*by V***L on Reviewed in the United States on October 20, 2021*

He writes good stories, specializes in locked room murders, is pretty good at not hiding important clues, but he was always a bit on the purple side, and I find it all a little much now. I tend to buy all a particular author has written, but I don't think I'll get any more of his.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    The King of the Locked Room at the top of his game.
  

*by K***R on Reviewed in the United States on May 12, 2016*

This is true vintage Carr at his early best .the rich atmosphere of the lurking supernatural threat from the past that may or may not have a material explanation.  The thing for which Carr has most often been faulted by critics is part of what makes him a real favorite of mine he has been accused of Cardboard Characters with spotlight in how the impossible crime could have been managed not what mental processes led the perpetrator to do it .In other words a technical not a psychological puzzle .

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