The Three Coffins by John Dickson Carr 1935

Description: Good condition. BM Titles for the Bestseller Mystery are chosen from those mysteries which have had a large and continuing sale. Sometimes they are reprinted in full, but more often they are cut to speed up the story always, of course, with the permission of the author or his pub- lisher. This mystery has been cut. Bestseller Mystery, No. B47... 570 Lexington Avenue, New York 22. Printed in the United States of America. Copyright, 1935, by John Dickson Carr. Reprinted by special arrangement with Harper & Brothers, Publishers. FIRST COFFIN: THE PROBLEM OF THE SAVANT'S STUDY CHAPTER ONE TO THE MURDER of Professor Grimaud, and later the equally incredible crime in Cagliostro Street, many fantastic terms could be applied with reason. Those of Dr. Fell's friends who like impossible situations will not find in his casebook any puzzle more baffling or more terrifying. Thus: two murders were committed, in such fashion that the murderer must not only have been invisible, but lighter than air. According to the evidence, this person killed his first victim and literally disappeared. Again according to the evidence, he killed his second victim in the middle of an empty street, with watchers at either end; yet not a soul saw him, and no footprint appeared in the snow. Naturally, Superintendent Hadley never for a moment believed in goblins or wizardry. It must be stated, moreover, that Mr. Stuart Mills at Professor Grimaud's house was not lying, was not omitting or adding anything, but telling the whole business exactly as he saw it. Also it must be stated that the three inde- pendent witnesses of Cagliostro Street (Messrs. Short and Blackwin, and Police- constable Withers) were telling the exact truth. Under these circumstances, one of the events which led up to the crime must be outlined more fully than is possible in retrospect. It was the keynote, the whip- lash, the challenge. And it is retold from Dr. Fell's notes, exactly as Stuart Mills later told it to Dr. Fell and Superintendent Hadley. It occurred on the night of Wednesday, February 6th, three days before the murder, in the back parlour of the Warwick Tavern in Museum Street. and Dr. Charles Vernet Grimaud had lived in England for nearly thirty years, spoke English without accent. Except for a few curt mannerisms when he was excited, and his habit of wearing an old-fashioned square-topped bowler hat and black string tie, he was even more British than his friends. Nobody knew much about his earlier years. Professor Grimaud had been a teacher, a popular lecturer and writer. But he had done little of late, and occupied some vague unsalaried post at the British Museum which gave him access to what he called the low-magic manuscripts. Low magic was the hobby of which he had made capital-and got a bullet through the lung for his pains. Grimaud spoke in rapid gruff bursts, from deep down in his throat; and he had a trick of chuckling behind closed teeth. He was of middle size, but he had a 3

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