Till Death Do Us Part
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4.0 • 11 Ratings
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Publisher Description
This "[Is a] nail-biting locked room puzzle...Carr's gift for creating a creepy atmosphere again meshes with a brilliantly constructed and eminently fair whodunit." — Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
"Who can I trust?” Love-sick Dick Markham is reeling. He’s set to marry Lesley Grant—a woman whom he learns is not who she appears to be. She seems to have been associated with three poisonings, all of which were in locked rooms. Another crime has been committed and we will watch the great Dr. Fell investigate through Markham’s watchful eyes.
That night the enigmatic fortune teller—and chief accuser—is found dead in an impossible locked-room setup, casting suspicion onto Grant and striking doubt into the heart of her lover. Lured by the scent of the impossible case, Dr. Gideon Fell arrives from London to examine the perplexing evidence and match wits with a meticulous killer at large.
First published in 1944, Till Death Do Us Part remains a pacey and deeply satisfying impossible crime story, championed by Carr connoisseurs as one of the very best examples of his mystery writing talents. This edition includes an introduction by CWA Diamond Dagger Award-winning author Martin Edwards.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
This nail-biting locked-room puzzle from Carr (1906–1977), set in pre-WWII England and first published in 1944, initially unfolds from the perspective of crime author Dick Markham, who's besotted with his new fiancée, Lesley Grant. Markham is stunned when a fortune-teller visiting the village of Six Ashes has a session with Grant in which he says something that frightens her, which she refuses to disclose to Markham. Then the seer is shot, apparently by a gun Grant claimed discharged accidentally, and the writer learns that the wounded man is a famed criminologist, Sir Harvey Gilman. Gilman, who survives the shooting, rocks Markham with the revelation that Grant's believed to have gotten away with murdering three lovers in two countries with prussic acid in rooms from which no person could have escaped—and which have stumped the police. When a fourth such killing occurs in Six Ashes, series sleuth Gideon Fell is called in to explain the inexplicable. Carr's gift for creating a creepy atmosphere again meshes with a brilliantly constructed and eminently fair whodunit. This epitomizes the goal of the British Library Crime Classics—to reissue outstanding mysteries for a new audience.
