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      To Wake the Dead

      by John Dickson Carr
      Published
      Jan 1938
      Main Genre
      Amateur Sleuth Amateur Sleuth
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      256
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      A Dr. Gideon Fell Mystery Book 7

      About This Book

      A purloined breakfast produced a body in a trunk

      The victim of his own bizarre bet, mystery writer Christopher Kent swindled breakfast at London's Royal Scarlet Hotel -- only to find himself frantically trying to flee a darkened suite whose occupant was a savagely murdered young woman.

      Enlisting the aid of Dr. Gideon Fell, Chris discovered with horror that the corpse was lovely Jenny Kent. She was the wife of his cousin Rodney who had been murdered in identical fashion two weeks earlier at a country estate miles away. From Piccadilly Circus, portly Dr. Fell and the police follow a gravestone-marked trail to Sussex, and a solution to a pattern of madness spun half a world away.

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      Book 7
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      Amateur Sleuth

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      Jan 1965 MacMillan ISBN13 9780020183402 ISBN10 0020183402
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      Apr 1984 HarperCollins (UK) ISBN13 9780020187509 ISBN10 0020187505
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