The Black Spectacles (The Problem of the Green Capsule)

Book 94 of 107: British Library Crime Classics

Carr, John Dickson

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ISBN 10: 0706608852 ISBN 13: 9780706608854

Published by Remploy Limited, London, 1981

Language: English

Condition: Used - Very good Hardcover

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Remploy Reprint Edition of a book originally published in 1939 in the US by Harper under the title 'The Problem of the Green Capsule'. The first UK edition from Hamish Hamilton in 1939used the title 'The Black Spectacles.' The jacket covering suggests the book was intended for a lending library but it has no stamps or other marks associated with this. Light browning to endpapers and a small tear in the edge of page 147. The book has an odour - probably from the home of a smoker - but the pages are otherwise clean and unmarked. The jacket has quite heavy fading to the spine and browning along the right side of the rear panel.

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Title: The Black Spectacles (The Problem of the Green Capsule)
Publisher: Remploy Limited, London
Publication Date: 1981
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0706608852
ISBN 13: 9780706608854
Binding: Original Cloth
Edition: Reprint
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Good

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According to Marcus Chesney, eye-witnesses were unreliable. To observe something, then to relate accurately what was just seen, he felt was impossible.

To prove his point, Chesney set up a test. With witnesses looking on, he calmly sat still while a sinister scarecrow of a man entered the room, walked over to him...and murdered him!

All the suspects were witnesses; each could alibi another. Logically, therefore, no one could have murdered Marcus Chesney. But then why was he dead?

It take Gideon Fell to unravel this Golden Age classic.

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