The Three Coffins
11 hrs. 34 min.
Description
The golden age of detective fiction gave us many star names. Works by writers such as Agatha Christie, Gilbert Chesterton, Earl Stanley Gardner, Rex Stout—developed and perfected the detective genre. Their novels, firmly recognized as classics, are still loved by readers and set a benchmark for later generations of mystery writers. A well-deserved place among this constellation belongs to John Dixon Carr (1906–1977)—a virtuoso master of perfectly constructed “impossible crimes” in locked rooms.
The novel “Three Coffins” (1934), also published under the title “The Hollow Man,” continues the cycle of adventures featuring the cunning and charming Dr. Gideon Fell. In 1933, in the novel “The Witch House,” John Dixon Carr first introduced the doctor Fell to the public. And then, in “Three Coffins” (1934), also published as “The Hollow Man,” Dr. Fell addressed the reader with the legendary “Locked Room Lecture,” unexpectedly adding to his list of achievements with an unmatched study of the mechanism behind one of the key plot schemes of detective literature.
The novel “Three Coffins” (1934), also published under the title “The Hollow Man,” continues the cycle of adventures featuring the cunning and charming Dr. Gideon Fell. In 1933, in the novel “The Witch House,” John Dixon Carr first introduced the doctor Fell to the public. And then, in “Three Coffins” (1934), also published as “The Hollow Man,” Dr. Fell addressed the reader with the legendary “Locked Room Lecture,” unexpectedly adding to his list of achievements with an unmatched study of the mechanism behind one of the key plot schemes of detective literature.
