The Witch of the Low Tide
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| Rating | : | 4.67 (877 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00ISH778K |
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| Number of Pages | : | 392 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-03-04 |
| Language | : | English |
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"TRY TESTING YOUR WITS WITH THIS FAIR-PLAY MYSTERY" according to David R. Eastwood. John Dickson Carr (American, 1906-1977) specialized in fair-play mysteries that appeared to contain impossible crimes. This novel, THE WITCH OF THE LOW TIDE (1961), contains two separate How-Done-It Puzzles to test readers' wits, as well as a rather good Who-Done-It Puzzle that at least ten percent of those who read with care ought to be able to solve.This story is set in England in 1908, an. "TRY TESTING YOUR WITS WITH THIS FAIR-PLAY MYSTERY!" according to David R. Eastwood. John Dickson Carr (American, 1906-1977) specialized in fair-play mysteries that appeared to contain impossible crimes. This novel, THE WITCH OF THE LOW TIDE (1961), contains two separate How-Done-It Puzzles to test readers' wits, as well as a rather good Who-Done-It Puzzle that at least ten percent of those who read with care ought to be able to solve.This story is set in England in 1908, an. TRY TESTING YOUR WITS WITH THIS FAIR-PLAY MYSTERY John Dickson Carr (American, 1906-1977) specialized in fair-play mysteries that appeared to contain impossible crimes. This novel, THE WITCH OF THE LOW TIDE (1961), contains two separate How-Done-It Puzzles to test readers' wits, as well as a rather good Who-Done-It Puzzle that at least ten percent of those who read with care ought to be able to solve.This story is set in England in 1908, an
Widely regarded as one of the greatest Golden Age mystery writers, his work featured apparently impossible crimes often with seemingly supernatural elements. He modelled his affable and eccentric series detective Gideon Fell on G. He studied law in Paris before settling in England where he married an Englishwoman, and he spent most of his writing career living in Great Britain. . He died in Greenville, South Carolina in 19
He has fallen in love with Betty Calder, a delicate young woman whom the police suspect of blackmail and prostitution.Garth refuses to believe these accusations, but when a strangled body is found on Betty’s property, surrounded by fifty feet of wet sand with no footprints but her own, the challenge before him seems daunting. A man fears his beloved is not who she claims to be in this sophisticated puzzler by John Dickson Carr, a master of the British-style detective novelDavid Garth has just stepped off the train at Charing Cross when he is summoned to Scotland Yard to answer questions about a person believed to be living a double life.A neurologist, Garth is an expert on the brain, but in matters of the heart he is clueless. Can he outwit a cunning murderer and a hostile detective-inspector to prove his fiancee’s innocence?
He modelled his affable and eccentric series detective Gideon Fell on G. Widely regarded as one of the greatest Golden Age mystery writers, his work featured apparently impossible crimes often with seemingly supernatural elements. Sayers said of him that 'he can create atmosphere with an adjective, alarm with allusion, or delight with a rollicking absurdity'. . He studied law in Paris before settling in England where he married an Englishwoman, and he spent most of his writing career living in Great Britain. He was one of only two Americans admitted to the British Detection club, and was highly praised by other mystery writers. K. He died in Greenville, South Carolina in 1977. About the Author John Dickson Carr, the master of the locked-room mystery, was born in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, the son of a US Congressman. Chesterton, and wrote a number of novels