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Title	:	The Ten Teacups (Sir Henry Merrivale #6)
Author	:	Carter Dickson
Book Format	:	Ebook
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 150 pages
Published	:	Locked Room Mysteries 102 books — 108 voters
Categories	:	Mystery. Crime

The Ten Teacups (Sir Henry Merrivale #6)

Carter Dickson

Ebook | Pages: 150 pages

Rating: 3.82 | 176 Users | 23 Reviews

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The murderer sent a formal invitation to Scotland Yard telling them the time and place of the murder. Incredulous, and astounded at the audacity of such a note, the Yard recalled a similar, and still unsolved, case of two years previous.

Sir Henry Merrivale and Chief Inspector Masters accepted the invitation and had the house surrounded. Upstairs in an otherwise empty house was a furnished room. A man entered the house. Promptly at the time set by the murderer a shot rang out. The police rushed in and discovered that same man on the floor with a bullet through the back of the head and another in his spine... but no one else had entered the house! It was an impossible situation, but it DID happen.

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Original Title:	The Peacock Feather Murders
ISBN:	0727800949 (ISBN13: 9780727800947)
Series:	Sir Henry Merrivale #6

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The locked room situation, involving a vacant house, ten teacups, and an apparently impossible shooting, is neatly set up and the reader is drawn in; but Carr has made the mistake of not introducing any of the suspects before the crime; so then we do a death march of inquiries through the cast of not especially interesting suspects and on top of it all, the focus shifts to tracing their actions at some murder party the night before that I couldn't give a fig about, a frustrating distraction from

Carter Dickson is a pen name of writer John Dickson Carr.

At the bookstore earlier today, I voiced my inability to understand why John Dickson Carr is the "forgotten" writer of crime's golden age. And, upon finishing this book, I think that's even more inconceivable.Writing as Carter Dickson, here's another impossible locked room murder (involving ten teacups, peacock feathers, and a dead man in an abandoned house) with an unlikely, yet totally possible solution.But if killers were this clever, no one would solve crimes ever again.And this, this is

How to find the murderer when the room is locked and no one went in or out. A 1937 book, British mystery. Entertaining, if a bit old fashioned

The first time the police received a message about ten teacups, they found a dead man in an empty house. The second time, a man is murdered in a room surrounded by Scotland Yard--with no one else there. Naturally, Sir Henry Merrivale is the only one who can eludicate, but even H.M. seems a bit subdued and baffled by the large number of clues and the small number of suspects.

While initially intriguing, the unformed characters and the different-for-different's-sake locked room puzzle make it very difficult to be surprised when the murderer (or, murderers) is (are) revealed. The murder of Vance Keating especially is contingent on the alignment of quite a number of stars.

A stunning impossible crime, let down by the forced actions of some characters to make the impossibility happen. Full review at classicmystery.wordpress.com