The Emperor's Snuff-Box
Author: John Dickson Carr
Translator: Ho-geol Kang
Publisher: Haemun
270 pages.
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About The Author
Carr was a master of the locked room mystery, in which a detective
solves apparently impossible crimes. Examples of such crimes are murder
inside a locked and sealed room, or the discovery of a dead body
(strangled or knifed at close quarters) surrounded by snow or wet sand
in which no footprints but the victim's are visible. The Dr. Fell
mystery The Three Coffins (aka The Hollow Man) (1935), usually
considered Carr's masterpiece, features crimes that are variations on
both of these scenarios and that has a notable discourse by Dr. Fell on
the nature of impossible crimes. It was selected as the best locked-room
mystery of all time by a panel of mystery writers and Dr. Fell's
discourse is sometimes printed as a stand-alone essay.
Many of the Fell novels feature two or more different impossible crimes,
including He Who Whispers (1946) and The Case of the Constant Suicides
(1941). The novel The Crooked Hinge (1938) weaves a seemingly impossible
throat-slashing, witchcraft, an eerie automaton modelled on Johann
Maelzel's chess player, and a case similar to that of the Tichborne
claimant into what is often cited as one of the greatest classics of
detective fiction. But even Carr's biographer, Douglas G. Greene (John
Dickson Carr: The Man Who Explained Miracles), notes that the
explanation, like many of Carr's in other books, seriously stetches
plausibility and the reader's credulity.
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