John Dickson Carr "The Plague Court Murders" (1st Sir Henry Merrivale) TPB large size Langtail Press VG

For Sale is "The Plague Court Murders" by John Dickson Carr under the pseudonym Carter Dickson, in large trade paperback size.

This is the 1st book featuring the amateur detective Sir Henry Merrivale.

The book is in Very Good condition, solid and complete; only very minor age speckling on the top of the textblock.

All shown in attached pictures.

John Dickson Carr (1906–1977) was an American author and a towering figure of the Golden Age of detective fiction, renowned as the master of "locked-room" mysteries. Spending nearly two decades in England, he wrote over 70 novels, featuring famous detectives Dr. Gideon Fell and Sir Henry Merrivale, blending intricate plots with atmospheric, often gothic, suspense.

In The Plague Court Murders a spiritual medium is murdered in a locked hut on a haunted estate. Sir Henry Merrivale (who debuts in this novel) seeks a logical solution to a ghostly crime.

Plague Court is old and crumbling, long neglected after its lord, hangman’s assistant Louis Playge, fell victim to the black death hundreds of years before. Famously haunted by Playge’s ghost, the property finally has a new owner and banishing the spirit is the first order of business. And when the medium employed with this task is found stabbed to death in a locked stone hut on the grounds, surrounded by an untouched circle of mud, the other guests at Plague Court have every reason to fear an act of supernatural violence—for who among them would be diabolical and calculating enough to orchestrate such an impossible execution?

Enter Sir Henry Merrivale, an amateur sleuth of many talents with deductive powers strong enough to unspool even the most baffling crimes. But in the creepy, atmospheric setting of Plague Court, where every indication suggests intervention from the afterlife, he encounters a seemingly illogical murder scene unlike anything he’s ever encountered before.