The Plague Court Murders [SEP] series
The Plague Court Murders
The Plague Court Murders is the first Sir Henry Merrivale mystery, by the American writer John Dickson Carr, who wrote it under the name of Carter Dickson. It is a locked room mystery of the subtype known as an "impossible crime".
Plot summary.
Ken Blake is approached by an old friend, Dean Halliday, who tells the story of his family estate, Plague Court. Halliday explains that the house is haunted by the ghost of the original owner, Louis Playge, a
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