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The Arabian Nights Murder
The Arabian Nights Murder, first published in 1936, 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 whodunnit.
Plot summary.
When Scotland Yard detective John Carruthers attends the Wade Museum of Oriental Art, and begins to investigate the interior of one of a series of carriages on exhibit, he is sarcastically told by the night watchman "Watch out when you touch it! There's a dead man inside
his discourse, he states, off-handedly, that he and his listeners are, of course, characters in a book.
Chronology.
- 1933, "Hag's Nook"
- 1933, "The Mad Hatter Mystery"
- 1934, "The Eight of Swords"
- 1934, "The Blind Barber"
- 1935, "Death-Watch"
- 1935, "The Hollow Man" (The Three Coffins)
- 1936, "The Arabian Nights Murder"