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The Man Who Could Not Shudder
First US edition
AuthorJohn Dickson Carr
LanguageEnglish
SeriesGideon Fell
GenreMystery, Detective fiction
PublisherHamish Hamilton (UK) & Harper (USA)
Publication date
1940
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint (Hardback & Paperback)
OCLC13443298
Preceded byThe Problem of the Wire Cage 
Followed byThe Case of the Constant Suicides 

The Man Who Could Not Shudder, first published in 1940, is a detective story by American writer John Dickson Carr featuring his series detective Gideon Fell. It is mystery novel of the locked room mystery type, more properly a subset of the locked room mystery called an "impossible crime" story.

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