Carter Dickson [John Dickson Carr] | The Peacock Feather Murders, 1937

Carter Dickson [John Dickson Carr]

The Peacock Feather Murders. New York: William Morrow and Company, 1937

FIRST EDITION, 8vo, original red-stamped black cloth, DUST-JACKET, dust-jacket frayed at edges with slight loss

This "locked room mystery" featuring Sir Henry Merrivale was issued in the UK as The Ten Teacups.

"...The Peacock Feather Murders and The Judas Window are justly regarded as classics of the locked-room story..." (Twentieth-Century Crime and Mystery Writers (London, 1980))

PROVENANCE

Norman Philbrick, San Marino (ownership inscription); The Alexis Galanos Collection