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The Black Spectacles
First UK edition cover
Author
John Dickson Carr
Original title
US title: "The Problem of the Green Capsule: being the psychologist's murder case"
Language
English
Series
Gideon Fell
Genre
Mystery, Detective novel
Publisher
Hamish Hamilton (UK) & Harper (USA)
Publication date
1939
Publication place
United Kingdom
Media type
Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages
223 pp (International Polygonics paperback edition, 1986)
ISBN
0-930330-51-X (International Polygonics paperback edition, 1986)
OCLC
15209355
Preceded by
The Crooked Hinge (1938)
Followed by
The 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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