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Poisoned Pen Press
April 2026
On Sale: April 28, 2026
304 pages
ISBN: 1464253773
EAN: 9781464253775
Kindle: B0FN5F2BG2
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Mystery Private Eye
First published in 1937, this classic mystery shines on today as one of the great masterpieces of the impossible crime genre. "There will be ten teacups at number 4, Berwick Terrace, W.8, on Wednesday, July 31st, at 5 p.m. Precisely. The presence of the Metropolitan Police is respectfully requested." The note was delivered to New Scotland Yard, its words evoking a cold murder case and its unsolved mystery of the ten teacups found beside the body. Scrambling to prevent a second killing, the police set up a watertight cordon at Berwick Terrace. But gunfire rings out from the top floor at 5 p.m. on the 31st, and the corpse of one of the celebrity tenants is found in a locked room, shot twice from behind, a smoking gun by their side and on the table – ten teacups. The killer has vanished into thin air, an impossibility which calls for the masterful sleuth Sir Henry Merrivale to enter the fray.
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