The Problem of the Wire Cage: A Gideon Fell Mystery

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1939. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. First edition. Lacks jacket. Boards lightly soiled. 1939 Hard Cover. 296 pp. A detective novel by the Golden Age mystery author who also wrote under the names Carter Dickson, Carr Dickson, and Roger Fairbairn. Carr was considered a master of the 'locked room' sub-genre. This book features his popular Dr. Fell character, and probes the mystery of a man found strangled on a tennis court after a social doubles match was halted by a rainstorm, the only tracks on the sodden court leading up to the corpse those of the dead man and a woman who doesn't seem to have done it.