The Black Spectacles

Condition: Very good

Light creasing to spine. Read once, no markings to covers.

"A sinister case of deadly poisoned chocolates from Sodbury Cross's high street shop haunts the group of friends and relatives assembled at Bellegarde, among the orchards of 'peach-fancier' Marcus Chesney. To prove a point about how the sweets could have been poisoned under the nose of the shopkeeper, Chesney stages an elaborate memory game to test whether any of his guests can see beyond their 'black spectacles'; that is, to see the truth without any assumptions as witnesses.

During the test - which is also being filmed - Chesney is murdered by his supposed accomplice. The keen wits of Dr. Gideon Fell are called for to crack this brazen and bizarre murder committed in full view of an audience.

Also known by its American title The Problem of the Green Capsule, this 1939 novel is widely regarded as one of John Dickson Carr's masterpieces and remains among the greatest impossible-crime mysteries of all time."

This 2023 British Library Crime Clasics edition of John Dickson Carr's brilliant locked-room mystery is in very good condition. Read only once, it has light creasing to the spine and a small crease in the bottom-right corner of the front cover.