{"title":"Carter Dickson","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCarter Dickson\u003c\/strong\u003e offers engrossing crime and thriller novels that blend intricate puzzles with atmospheric storytelling. Readers can expect cleverly constructed mysteries marked by unexpected twists, sharp deduction, and a classic sense of suspense.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith titles such as \u003cem\u003eThe Judas Window\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Ten Teacups\u003c\/em\u003e, his works invite lovers of traditional whodunits to immerse themselves in tense investigations where every detail matters and the truth lies just beneath the surface.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-ten-teacups-by-john-dickson-carr-9780712355278","title":"The Ten Teacups","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThere will be ten teacups at number 4, Berwick Terrace, W. 8, on Wednesday, July 31, at 5 p.m. precisely. The presence of the Metropolitan Police is respectfully requested.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWriting as Carter Dickson, the master of the locked room mystery, John Dickson Carr, returns to the Crime Classics series. He pitches his series amateur detective, Henry Merrivale, against a seemingly watertight mystery: after the police are sent a note warning them about a forthcoming crime, a man is shot in a room on the top floor of a Kensington townhouse—a house watched from all sides during the murder.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSurely nobody could have gotten in or out? And yet the man is dead, and just like the last time the police received a note like this, there are ten teacups set out at the scene of the crime.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eH.M. is drawn to unravel this bizarre crime, as the mysterious significance of the ten teacups in murders past and present pushes the police to their limits.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46848046989548,"sku":"9780712355278","price":27.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/16939393482441.jpg?v=1758958774"},{"product_id":"the-judas-window-by-john-dickson-carr-9780712355339","title":"The Judas Window","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne of the greatest locked-room murder mysteries of all time, hailing from 1938, returns to baffle a new bevy of armchair detectives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJames Answell, visiting his father-in-law Avery Hume in his locked study, has the misfortune to wake up from a drugged-Whisky swoon to find his host dead, skewered with an arrow. He is, of course, the prime suspect.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAfter setting up this devilish scenario, an ingenious courtroom thriller unravels, in which the razor-sharp amateur detective and barrister, Sir Henry Merrivale, stars in all of his outlandish glory. The mystery of the \u003cem\u003eJudas Window\u003c\/em\u003e is revealed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46985895018732,"sku":"9780712355339","price":27.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/16940003482441.jpg?v=1762994734"},{"product_id":"the-white-priory-murders-by-john-dickson-carr-9780712354226","title":"The White Priory Murders","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe White Priory Murders\u003c\/em\u003e presents an 'impossible situation' regarded as the best Mr Dickson has given us, according to Torquemada in The Observer, 1935.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Sir Henry is at his best in this baffling yarn, and so is Carter Dickson,\" praised The New York Times in 1934.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJames Bennett has been invited to stay at White Priory for Christmas among the retinue of the glamorous Hollywood actress Marcia Tait. Her producer, her lover, the playwright for her next hit, and her agent are all present, soon becoming suspects when Tait is found murdered on a cold December morning in the lakeside pavilion. Only the footprints of her discoverer disturb the snow which fell overnight and which stopped just shortly after Marcia was last seen alive. How did the murderer get in and out of the pavilion without leaving a trace?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhen Bennett's uncle, the cantankerous amateur sleuth Sir Henry Merrivale, arrives from London to make sense of this impossible crime, the reader is treated to a feast of the author's trademark twists, beguiling false answers, and one of the most ingenious solutions in the history of the mystery genre.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47428343300332,"sku":"9780712354226","price":27.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780712354226.jpg?v=1774496976"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/collections\/carter-dickson.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}