Sir Henry Merrivale Series by Carter Dickson, John Dickson Carr

3.75 · 12 ratings
  • The Peacock Feather Murders (Sir Henry Merrivale #6)
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    The Peacock Feather Murders (Sir Henry Merrivale #6)

    Carter Dickson

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings · published 1937

    The murderer sent a formal invitation to Scotland Yard telling them the time and place of the murder. Incredulous, and astounded at the audacity of such a note, the Yard recalled a similar, and still unsolved, case of two years previous.Sir Henry Merrivale and Chief Inspector Masters accepted the invitation and had the house surrounded. Upstairs in an otherwise empty house was a furnished room. A man entered the house. Promptly at the time set by the murderer a shot rang out... more

  • The Curse of the Bronze Lamp (Sir Henry Merrivale #16)
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    The Curse of the Bronze Lamp (Sir Henry Merrivale #16)

    Carter Dickson, John Dickson Carr

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings · published 1945

    A curse shall befall anyone who takes the bronze lamp out of Egypt, so a seer has said. Lady Helen Loring thinks such tales are sheer poppycock. She takes the lamp back to England, she places it on the mantelpiece at Serven Hall, and she disappears, just as the seer said.

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