{"product_id":"the-three-coffins-9781613165867","title":"The Three Coffins","description":"Professor Charles Grimaud is found dead in his study just moments after his housekeeper watched him greet a mysterious visitor and welcome him into the room. Yet no sign of the murderer or murder weapon can be found. The housekeeper saw no one leave through the door and the snow outside the only window remains unblemished.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e An equally puzzling murder has occurred outside, in the middle of the street: The illusionist Pierre Fley was walking alone in a snow-covered cul-de-sac when witnesses heard someone shout \"The second bullet is for you!\" followed by a gunshot. He is found dead, with the revolver that killed both Grimaud and himself by his side and no footprints in the surrounding snow but his own.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e It appears that both murders must have been committed by a specter?someone not only invisible but lighter than air. But if anyone can find a rational explanation, it is brilliant amateur sleuth Dr. Gideon Fell.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In a 1981 survey of mystery experts, \u003cem\u003eThe Three Coffins\u003c\/em\u003e (called \u003cem\u003eThe Hollow Man\u003c\/em\u003e in the UK) was voted the best locked room mystery of all time. It is also celebrated for a scene in which Carr's iconic detective Gideon Fell delivers a speech expounding upon the dozens of methods and variations by which apparently impossible murders may be accomplished. Any fan of locked room mysteries and impossible crimes should consider this book required reading.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e American Mystery Classics\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/01\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781613165867\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 312","brand":"John Dickson Carr","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44524600295605,"sku":"9781613165867","price":13.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_8a97709a-6406-444c-a243-439027abebdc.jpg?v=1722920275","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-three-coffins-9781613165867","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}