Sir Henry Merrivale

Sir Henry Merrivale

Sir Henry Merrivale is a fictional detective created by "Carter Dickson", a pen name of John Dickson Carr. Also known as "the Old Man," HM, or "the Maestro", he appeared in twenty-two locked room mysteries and "impossible crime" novels of the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, [ [http://jdcarr.com/sir_henry_merrivale_thumbnails.htm Sir Henry Merrivale] ] as well as in two short stories. He is a certified doctor and a lawyer, and has a number of other talents, including stage magic, disguise and the history of crime. He started out as a serious character and became more comic as the series went on.

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* [http://www.mysterylist.com/carr5.htm Appraisal of all the HM books]


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