The Arabian Nights Murder

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name = The Arabian Nights Murder
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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) & Harper (USA)
release_date = 1936
media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback)
pages = 317 pp (Collier Books, paperback edition, 1985)
isbn = 0-02-018600-2 (Collier Books, paperback edition, 1985)
preceded_by = The Hollow Man (1935)
followed_by = To Wake the Dead (1938)

"The Arabian Nights Murder", first published in 1936, 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 whodunnit.

Plot summary

When Scotland Yard detective John Carruthers attends the Wade Museum of Oriental Art, and begins to investigate the interior of one of a series of carriages on exhibit, he is sarcastically told by the night watchman "Watch out when you touch it! There's a dead man inside!" Of course, a dead man tumbles out. The corpse has been stabbed with an elaborate Persian dagger, is wearing an obvious set of false whiskers, and is clutching a cookbook. Gideon Fell must investigate the death and explain all the bizarre circumstances of what was a very busy night at the museum.