The Bowstring Murders
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The Bowstring Murders is a mystery
novel by the American
writer John Dickson Carr
(1906–1977), who wrote it under the name of Carr Dickson. It is a whodunit
and the only one of his many works to be published under this name; subsequent reprints have been under his main pseudonym of "Carter Dickson". It is also his only novel to feature alcoholic detective John Gaunt.
Mystery fiction
Mystery fiction is a loosely-defined term.1.It is often used as a synonym for detective fiction or crime fiction— in other words a novel or short story in which a detective investigates and solves a crime mystery. Sometimes mystery books are nonfiction...
novel by the American
United States
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writer John Dickson Carr
John Dickson Carr
John Dickson Carr was an American author of detective stories, who also published under the pen names Carter Dickson, Carr Dickson and Roger Fairbairn....
(1906–1977), who wrote it under the name of Carr Dickson. It is a whodunit
Whodunit
A whodunit or whodunnit is a complex, plot-driven variety of the detective story in which the puzzle is the main feature of interest. The reader or viewer is provided with clues from which the identity of the perpetrator of the crime may be deduced before the solution is revealed in the final...
and the only one of his many works to be published under this name; subsequent reprints have been under his main pseudonym of "Carter Dickson". It is also his only novel to feature alcoholic detective John Gaunt.