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02293aam a2200349Ii 4500 001 883165FAC4BD11EEB847D6DA21ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240206010118 008 231221r20241939nyu 000 1 eng d 010 $a bl2023178829 020 $a 1613164866 020 $a 9781613164860 040 $d SILO 043 $a e-uk-en 050 14 $a PS3505.A763 $b P76 2024 082 04 $a 813/.52 $2 23/eng/20231220 100 1 $a Carr, John Dickson, $d 1906-1977, $e author. 245 14 $a The problem of the wire cage / $c John Dickson Carr ; introduction by Rian Johnson. 264 1 $a New York : $b Penzler Publishers, $c 2024. 300 $a vii, 262 pages ; $c 21 cm. 490 1 $a American mystery classics. 500 $a Includes discussion questions. 520 $a "Among all of Carr's ingenious crime scenes, the present case is one of his best known: a dead man is found strangled in the middle of a clay tennis court, just after a storm. In the damp dirt, there is one set of footsteps-his own-leading back to the grass; the court is otherwise untouched. There are no trees above from which the body may have fallen and no other visible means by which it may have been transported to its final resting place. Before determining the perpetrator of the strangulation, the local authorities are first confronted by the utter implausibility of the location-two interlocking questions puzzling enough to stump even the most seasoned inspector. The bafflement is reaching a harried volley by the time amateur sleuth Dr. Gideon Fell gets involved, but he soon shows that the knotted plot is no match for his deductive powers. Before he can serve up a dazzling explanation of whodunnit, though, Fell will have to sort through a confounding set of clues in search of a diabolical killer and a bizarre murder method"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Fell, Gideon (Fictitious character) $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Private investigators $z England $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Murder $x Investigation $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Detective and mystery fiction. $2 lcgft. 655 7 $a Novels. $2 lcgft. 830 0 $a Otto Penzler's classic American mystery library. 941 $a 1 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20240206010610.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=883165FAC4BD11EEB847D6DA21ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search