Sir Henry Merrivale Books
The first Sir Henry Merrivale mystery from Golden Age author John Dickson Carr When Dean Halliday becomes convinced that the malevolent ghost of Louis Playge is haunting his family estate in London, he invites Ken Bates and Detective-Inspector Masters along to Plague Court to investigate. Arriving at night, they find his aunt and fiancée preparing to exorcise the spirit in a séance run by psychic Roger Darworth. While Darworth locks himself in a stone house behind Plague Court, the séance proceeds, and at the end he is found gruesomely murdered. But who, or what, could have killed him? All the windows and doors were bolted and locked, and no one could have gotten inside. The only one who can solve the crime in this bizarre and chilling tale is locked-room expert Sir Henry Merrivale.
Too many murderers. White Priory was a beautiful old mansion outside London. Its owner, a playwright, had invited some people down to discuss his new play, among other things...But someone had come not to talk, but to kill. When Scotland Yard joined the houseparty, everyone started to talk, but all they did was accuse each other of murder -- and all their accounts seemed equally plausible. It was a case for Sir Henry. Only Merrivale could sort out the suspects and mark the murderer before he killed again...
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Gasquet, France's best policeman, pursues Flamande, France's greatest criminal, on a flight from Marseilles to Paris and when the plane makes an emergency landing and a murder takes place, it is Sir Henry Merrivale's job to identify both men, each a master of disguise
Sir Henry Merrivale investigates the murder of a dead man who appeared to be in two places at the same time
Sir Henry Merrivale unlocks another locked room.
Only young James Answell could have committed the murder. After all, he was found unconscious in the locked room next to the body of the murdered man. His clothes were disheveled from an apparent struggle. The whiskey decanter containing the liquor he said was used to knock him out was full to the brim. All the glasses on the table were clean. His fingerprints were found on the murder weapon, an arrow from the victim's collection. Furthermore, he was heard arguing with the dead man, whose daughter he wished to marry. Just about everyone is convinced that James is headed for a date with the hangman. Everyone except for Sir Henry Merrivale, H.M. to his friends and associates. He's convinced that the real murderer used a "Judas window" to commit the crime. Pay no attention to the architects who designed the building, H.M. insists. In fact, he says, you'll find a Judas window in practically every room. "The trouble is that so few people ever notice it."
Carter Dickson (a.k.a. John Dickson Carr) is certainly the master of the locked-room mystery, a category which might as well be named after him. In "Death in Five Boxes," Carr presents not a locked-room mystery but a nonetheless apparently impossible crime. A gathering of five people ends when four of them are found unconscious and nearly dead from atropine poisoning. The fifth faired far less well; he was dead, stabbed. As the room in which the five were found was not locked, the crime should be an easy one. But there's a slight catch; it seems impossible that anyone, whether a member of the group or an outsider, could have put the poison into the drinks. Sir Henry Merrivale, Carr's best character, is determined to solve the crime, though, and he naturally does so. Along the way, we learn that the five people who were at the table have many secrets, all of which only serve to cloud the mystery. "Death in Five Boxes" is an excellent novel for those who would like to be able finally to solve one of Carr's puzzles. The solution is perhaps the most obvious of any of his novels or short stories, though it should be pointed out that "obvious" and Carr's name do not lend themselves to use in the same paragraph. The novel might be better for aspiring mystery novelists. With such a (relatively) obvious solution, the book becomes an exercise in the mastery of hiding the obvious. Though the novel is far from Carr's best, either as a simple story or as an impossible mystery, the way in which this undisputed master goes about hiding the truth while playing entirely by the rules is something to behold
While visiting the house of a friend to meet Herman Pennik, who claims to be a mind reader, Dr. John Sanders ends up investigating the death of his host, an event which was predicted by Pennik shortly before it took place
A Sir Henry Merrivale mystery No one expected a clergyman's daughter from East Roystead to author a scandalous bestseller, but when Monica Stanton published Desire she quickly got hired at Albion Films. Expecting to adapt her own work, she is instead assigned to help scriptwriter William Cartwright adapt his latest detective novel. Almost immediately, a series of mysterious attempts on her life begin, and the flamboyant Sir Henry Merrivale is called in to investigate. But can he see through the intrigue to seek out the perpetrator before it's too late?
Fingerprints at the scene of the murder should match one of only nine passengers traveling on a munitions ship to England in 1940, but when Sir Henry Merrivale investigates, no match is found
When the Fanes treat their dinner guests to a hypnotist's parlor act that unexpectedly ends in murder, the cantankerous Sir Henry Merrivale returns to distinguish reality from suggested illusion
The atmosphere turns deadly at a New Year's house party at financier Dwight Stanhope's country home, Waldmere, and Sir Henry Merrivale attempts to trap a murderous culprit
"Dr. Luke," said Rita Wainright, "I'm terribly, horribly in love with Barry Sullivan.""What about your husband?""He doesn't know!"But was Alec Wainright ignorant of the fact that his beautiful young wife was having an affair? And what possible solution was there for Rita and Barry with Alec standing in their way, so old, so ill, and so devoted?Then one black night the unexpected happens. and that's where Sir Henry Merrivale comes in. The great H.M. has a nasty time with this ironclad puzzle.
Sir Henry Merrivale must solve a baffling locked-room murder at the reptile house in the Royal Abert Zoological Gardens
A curse shall befall anyone who takes the bronze lamp out of Egypt, so a seer has said. Lady Helen Loring thinks such tales are sheer poppycock. She takes the lamp back to England, she places it on the mantelpiece at Serven Hall, and she disappears, just as the seer said.
When British stage star Bruce Ransom agrees to play the role of multiple wife-murderer Roger Bewlay, he becomes the suspect of a homocide occurring in the town of Aldebridge shortly after his arrival
Shortly after leaping into his swimming pool and vanishing without a trace, American arts patron and accused embezzler Frederick Manning is found dead in a nearby graveyard and his old friend, British sleuth Sir Henry Merrivale, investigates
Letters containing vicious accusations are received by Stoke Druid residents, then timid Cordelia Martin is discovered drowned in the River Lea and the incomparable sleuth Sir Henry Merrivale investigates
World-famous supersleuth Sir Henry Merrivale's visit to Tangier is supposed to be a vacation, but with the brazen international thief known as "Iron Chest" also in town, Sir Henry cannot resist flexing his crook-catching muscle
Sir Henry Merrivale investigates the case of a valuable antique sword which appears to have been removed from a safe by the ghost of Sir Byng Rawdon
