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Near Fine. Mystery. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Clean and tight and square with sharp corners. Appears unread. Very little shelfwear. Review page included. Purple boards with gold lettering and a black leafless tree on the front. Reader's Digest 1544-4007.
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Very Good-with no dust jacket. Scarce. Harper date code H-K (August 1935). Black cloth cover has light wear to corners and spine caps with light scuffing to covers including a 1" inch white scuff on back cover and bumped corners but bright and overall in very good-condition. Spine is cocked. Binding is tight. Front end sheet has a small "10" written in crayon. Pages are lightly toned with soiling on only about half a dozen pages, otherwise pages are clean and very good.
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Good. No Jacket. Book First paperback ed. Good condition, moderate over all wear, price written on front cover, light moisture stain to outer edge of pages.
John Dickson Carr is, according to Wikipedia, one of the greats of the Golden Age of Mystery. Wikipedia also claims that The Three Coffins is his masterpiece, which is why I decided to read it. It is a classic locked-room mystery. The book is more concerned with the mechanics of the mystery, timetables, how it could be done, that sort of thing, than with the believability or development of the characters. Many older mysteries share this trait, although not all of them, and I find this type of mystery less interesting than one that explores motive and character as well. The detective, Dr. Fell, was not very well-developed in the book, nor were any of the other characters. He was prone to give lectures, but interestingly enough, not on criminology or the crime itself, but actually more on crime as depicted in novels.
