Death in Five Boxes - Softcover

Carter Dickson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0553242881 ISBN 13: 9780553242881

Publisher: IPL, 1991

Synopsis

Persons this mystery is Sir Henry Merrivale,of the Secret Service, is a tremendous, bald-headed Englishman who curses with a vengeance, looks malevolently over his spectacles, and is known and respected by the whole London Police Force as H.M.Chief Inspector Humphrey Masters,is ruddy of face, bland as a car-sharper, and wears his grizzled hair carefully brushed to hid his bald spot. He has shrewd eyes and a disconcerting way of using them. To be suspicious of everything and take nothing for granted is his simple code.Doctor John Sanders,a serious-faced young man who is so wrapped up in forensic medicine that he hasn't had time to look at life. There is not a suspicious bone in his body, but he hates bluff with a scientist's hatred.Peter Ferguson,the queer old blighter who is interested in Egyptian art, is clerkly in appearance - with a fringe of gray hair on his bald head, and a look of dour tolerance on his face. He once received the Egyptian Order of Merit, and is duly proud of it.Charles Drake,junior partner in the law firm of Drake, Rogers & Drake, is a brisk man of fifty-odd, with a rolling walk like a sailor, and a pince-nez which pushes the bridge of his nose up into a hump and makes his eyes look big and gray.Sir Dennis Blystone,tall and impressive, has a personality which seems at once forceful and hesitant. He is a famous London surgeon whose carefully tailored clothes and fine hands inspire confidence and ease.Marcia Blysonte,a very pretty girl of twenty-one, has brown hair, a short, straight nose, and eyebrows that turn up at the corners. There is a particularly luminous quality about her fine brown eyes, and she is terribly curious about everything.Bernard Schumman,old and mild-tempered, has something of the air of a clergyman or a minor statesman. His eyes are candid, pale blue and troubled. His hands, very delicate, are obviously the hands of a scholar.Felix Haye,an immense, jovial-looking man, wears a tonsure of red hair that gives him the look of a dissipated monk He is an investment broker, a bachelor, and an authority on parlor tricks.Bonita Sinclair,soft, sleek and long of limb, has very dark, glossy hair and a face that is full of great beauty and sensitiveness. Her small mouth and strong round chin give her a humorless look of earnestness and imagination.

Edition details

• Publisher: IPL
• Publication date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0553242881
• ISBN 13: 9780553242881
• Binding: Paperback