Scandal at High Chimneys

Scandal at High Chimneys

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image_caption = Early paperback edition
author = John Dickson Carr
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country = United Kingdom
language = English
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genre = Historical, Mystery, Detective novel
publisher = Hamish Hamilton (UK) & Harper (USA)
release_date = 1959
media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback)
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"Scandal at High Chimneys: A Victorian Melodrama" is a historical mystery novel by John Dickson Carr. It was published in the USA and Canada by Harper & Row in August 1959.

The story is set in London, 1865, and concerns a house called High Chimneys where secrets are hidden among the household members.

Plot introduction

Clive Strickland, lawyer and author, was to discover a bewildering and terrifying slice of Victorian life when his friend Victor Damon asked him to visit the family estate. The Damon family home, a huge and formidable mansion, plays host to a multitude of characters. Strange things happen at the Damons': a ghost like figure threatens; Matthew Damon gets murdered under impossible circumstances and it take the brilliance of Jonathan Whicher to solve the tangled puzzle.


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