Scandal at High Chimneys
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Author | John Dickson Carr |
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Cover artist | Irv Docktor |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Genre | Historical, Mystery, Detective novel |
Publisher | Hamish Hamilton (UK) & Harper (US) |
Publication date | 1959 |
Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
Pages | 230 (1st US) |
Scandal at High Chimneys: A Victorian Melodrama is a historical mystery novel by John Dickson Carr. It was published in the US and Canada by Harper & Row in August 1959.
The story is set in London, 1865, and concerns a house called High Chimneys where secrets are hidden among the household members.
Plot introduction[]
Clive Strickland, lawyer and author, was to discover a bewildering and terrifying slice of Victorian life when his friend Victor Damon asked him to visit the family estate. The Damon family home, a huge and formidable mansion, plays host to a multitude of characters. Strange things happen at the Damons': a ghost like figure threatens; Matthew Damon gets murdered under impossible circumstances and it take the brilliance of Jonathan Whicher to solve the tangled puzzle.
- 1959 American novels
- Historical mystery novels
- Novels by John Dickson Carr
- Fiction set in 1865
- Novels set in the 1860s
- Novels set in London
- Hamish Hamilton books
- Harper & Row books
- 1950s historical novel stubs
- 1950s crime novel stubs
- Mystery novel stubs