The Skeleton in the Clock
- The Skeleton in the Clock
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name = The Skeleton in the Clock
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image_caption = | author = John Dickson Carr writing as "Carter Dickson"
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country = United Kingdom
language = English
series = Henry Merrivale
genre = Mystery, Detective, Novel
publisher = Morrow (US, 1948, first edition) Heinemann (UK, 1949)
release_date = 1948
media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback)
pages = 284 (in Dell mapback #481, 1951)
isbn =
preceded_by = My Late Wives
followed_by = A Graveyard To Let
"The Skeleton in the Clock" is a mystery novel by the American writer John Dickson Carr (1906-1977), who published it under the name of Carter Dickson. It is a whodunnit and features the series detective Sir Henry Merrivale and his long-time associate, Scotland Yard's Chief Inspector Humphrey Masters.
Plot summary
Martin Drake meets Jennifer West in an auction house. Three years ago, he had fallen in love with her during a brief but intense encounter on a railway platform -- after which she vanished. Now it seems she is engaged to Richard Fleet, whom she's known since they were children together. And when they were children, Richard's father Sir George died when he fell off the roof of their home, Fleet House. It was generally accepted as an accident, but a series of mysterious happenings cause the case to be re-opened. Sir Henry Merrivale, detective and explainer of the impossible, is also at the auction and revives his old antagonism with Sophia, Dowager Countess of Brale, who is Jenny's grandmother. Arthur Puckston keeps the pub across the road from Fleet House and was an eyewitness to Sir George's death. When his daughter, Enid Puckston, is found murdered in what might be a haunted prison, Sir Henry takes a hand and reveals not only the identity of the murderer but the unusual psychology that underlies the case.
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