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When a spiritual medium is murdered in a locked hut on a haunted estate, Sir Henry Merrivale seeks a logical solution to a ghostly crimePlague Court is old and crumbling, long neglected after its lord, hangman's assistant Louis Playge, fell victim to the black death hundreds of years before. Famously haunted by Playge's ghost, the property finally has a new owner and banishing the spirit is the first order of business. And when the medium employed with this task is found stabbed to death in a locked stone hut on the grounds, surrounded by an untouched circle of mud, the other guests at Plague Court have every reason to fear an act of supernatural violence -- for who among them would be diabolical and calculating enough to orchestrate such an impossible execution?Enter Sir Henry Merrivale, an amateur sleuth of many talents with deductive powers strong enough to unspool even the most baffling crimes.
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, Carr Dickson and Roger Fairbairn. John Dickson Carr was born in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, in 1906. , his first published detective novel, featuring the Frenchman Henri Bencolin, was published in 1930. Apart from Dr Fell, whose first appearance was in in 1933, Carr's other series detectives (published under the nom de plume of ) were the barrister Sir Henry Merrivale, who debuted in
