The Problem of the Wire Cage
- The Problem of the Wire Cage
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name = The Problem of the Wire Cage
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author = John Dickson Carr
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country = United Kingdom
language = English
series = Gideon Fell
genre = Mystery, Detective novel
publisher = Hamish Hamilton (UK, 1940) & Harper (USA)
release_date = 1939
media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback)
pages = 300 pp (Zebra paperback edition, 1990)
isbn = 0-8217-3384-2 (Zebra paperback edition, 1990)
preceded_by = The Black Spectacles (1939) (aka "The Problem of the Green Capsule")
followed_by = The Man Who Could Not Shudder (1940)
"The Problem of the Wire Cage", first published in 1939, is a detective story by John Dickson Carr featuring his series detective Gideon Fell. This novel is a mystery of the type known as a locked room mystery (or more properly a subset of the locked room mystery called an "impossible crime" story).
Plot summary
Arrogant and obnoxious Frank Dorrance is engaged to pretty young Brenda White and frankly admits he plans to marry her for her money, or rather her guardian's money. Hugh Rowland, impoverished local solicitor, is simply in love with Brenda and believes that to approach Brenda would be foolish -- until the body of Frank Dorrance is found strangled near the centre of a clay tennis court leaves the field clear. However, there was only one set of footsteps on the soft clay surface, those of the victim. The victim's arrogance gained him many enemies during his lifetime, and a number of them are on hand in the vicinity with both motive and opportunity, but the authorities are finding it difficult to prove that anyone at all could have killed Frank Dorrance. Gideon Fell must take a hand and explain a number of unusual clues, including a picnic basket heavily laden with dirty dishes that mysteriously vanish. It is not until the murder of a second victim, a trapeze artist, that the crimes are brought home to their perpetrator.
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