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The Plague Court Murders
First US edition dustjacket
AuthorJohn Dickson Carr
writing as Carter Dickson
LanguageEnglish
SeriesHenry Merrivale
GenreMystery
PublisherMorrow (US, 1934)
Heinemann (UK, 1935)
Publication date
1934
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages312 (first US hardback ed)
Followed byThe White Priory Murders 

The Plague Court Murders is a mystery novel by the American writer John Dickson Carr, who wrote it under the name of Carter Dickson. The first Sir Henry Merrivale mystery, it is a locked room mystery of the subtype known as an "impossible crime".

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