The Arabian Nights Murder
1936 novel by John Dickson Carr
0-02-018600-2 (Collier Books, paperback edition, 1985)Dewey Decimal
The Arabian Nights Murder, first published in 1936, is a detective story by John Dickson Carr featuring his series detective Gideon Fell. This novel is a mystery of the type known as a whodunnit.
Plot summary
When Scotland Yard detective John Carruthers attends the Wade Museum of Oriental Art, and begins to investigate the interior of one of a series of carriages on exhibit, he is sarcastically told by the night watchman "Watch out when you touch it! There's a dead man inside!" Of course, a dead man tumbles out. The corpse has been stabbed with an elaborate Persian dagger, is wearing an obvious set of false whiskers, and is clutching a cookbook. Gideon Fell must investigate the death and explain all the bizarre circumstances of what was a very busy night at the museum.
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- The Life of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1949)
- The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes (1954)
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