The Ten Teacups

The Ten Teacups (U.S. title: The Peacock Feather Murders), is a locked room mystery by American mystery writer John Dickson Carr, writing as Carter Dickson. It features the series detective Sir Henry Merrivale, working with Scotland Yard's Chief Inspector Humphrey Masters. In a poll of 17 mystery writers and reviewers, this novel was voted as the tenth best locked room mystery of all time. The Hollow Man also by John Dickson Carr was voted the be... more

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John Dickson Carr

John Dickson Carr (November 30, 1906–February 27, 1977) was an American author of detective stories, who also published under the pen names Carter Dickson, Carr Dickson and Roger Fairbairn. He is generally regarded as one of the greatest writers of so-called "Golden Age" mysteries, complex, plot...

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