New editions of books by John Dickson Carr, Tom Mead and Edna Sherry remind me why I loved them the first time.
Updated: 21 minutes agoOver the years, I’ve read plenty of ingenious mystery novels twice, but John Dickson Carr’s “The Three Coffins” is among the very few I’ve enjoyed three times. This fall, Penzler Publishers has reprinted this greatest of locked-room whodunits as an American Mystery Classic, where it joins a diverse series that includes - to mention only the most recent offerings - Mary Roberts Rinehart’s “The Door,” Dorothy B.
A masterpiece of film noir, “Sudden Fear” earned Oscar nominations in 1953 for two of its stars, Joan Crawford and Jack Palance. Surprisingly, the suspense novel it’s based on, by Edna Sherry, hadn’t been easy to find until Stark House Press published a reprint last year. In atmosphere and plot, Sherry’s tense psychological thriller resembles a mashup of three movie classics about wealth, ambition and vanity: “Sunset Boulevard,” “Suspicion” and “The Talented Mr. Ripley.
It is, in fact, only partly a whodunit and more a cozy thriller. The elderly businessman Athelstan Digby, on holiday in a small village, agrees to mind the local bookshop while its owners attend a funeral. Over the course of a few hours, three different customers enter, asking - unsuccessfully - for John Bunyan’s “The Life and Death of Mr. Badman,” a homiletic dialogue about sin and redemption.
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