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The Black Spectacles
First UK edition cover
AuthorJohn Dickson Carr
Original titleUS title: "The Problem of the Green Capsule: being the psychologist's murder case"
LanguageEnglish
SeriesGideon Fell
GenreMystery, Detective novel
PublisherHamish Hamilton (UK) & Harper (USA)
Publication date
1939
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages223 pp (International Polygonics paperback edition, 1986)
ISBN0-930330-51-X (International Polygonics paperback edition, 1986)
OCLC15209355
Preceded byThe Crooked Hinge (1938) 
Followed byThe Problem of the Wire Cage (1939) 

The Black Spectacles (published in the US as The Problem of the Green Capsule, with the subtitle "Being the psychologist's murder case"), 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).

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