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The Problem of the Wire Cage

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Language
  
Publication date
  
1939

Originally published
  
1939

Country
  
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Pages
  
296 pp

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Publisher
  
Hamish Hamilton (UK, 1940) & Harper (USA)

Media type
  
Print (Hardback & Paperback)

Preceded by
  
The Black Spectacles (1939, aka The Problem of the Green Capsule)

Genres
  
Mystery, Detective fiction

Similar
  
John Dickson Carr books, Detective fiction books

The Problem of the Wire Cage, first published in 1939, is a detective story by John Dickson Carr featuring his series detective Gideon Fell. This novel is a mystery of the type known as a locked room mystery.

Plot summary

Arrogant and obnoxious Frank Dorrance is engaged to pretty young Brenda White and frankly admits he plans to marry her for her money, or rather her guardian's money. An impoverished local solicitor is simply in love with Brenda and believes that to approach Brenda would be foolish—until the body of Frank Dorrance, found strangled near the centre of a clay tennis court, leaves the field clear. However, there was only one set of footsteps on the soft clay surface, those of the victim. The victim's arrogance gained him many enemies during his lifetime, and a number of them are on hand in the vicinity with both motive and opportunity, but the authorities are finding it difficult to prove that anyone at all could have killed Frank Dorrance. Gideon Fell must take a hand and explain a number of unusual clues, including a picnic basket heavily laden with dirty dishes that mysteriously vanish. It is not until the murder of a second victim, a trapeze artist, that the crimes are brought home to their perpetrator.

References

The Problem of the Wire Cage Wikipedia


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