A MAGICIAN ENTERS THE LOCKED ROOM

The US-American author John Dickson Carr, who settled and wrote in England for 27 years, 1 is often considered as a pioneer of the locked-room mystery in Golden Age detective fiction. The Hollow Man, being as Michael Cook words it, "the quintessential example of Carr’s novels of the 1930s" 2 , will serve as the field of enquiry for this study. ................
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