Carr, John Dickson - The Nine Wrong Answers (1952)

Review by Nick Fuller

5/5

One of the most consistently entertaining late Carrs, reminiscent of classic Hitchcock. Bill Dawson, a young Englishman working in America, is employed by a fellow expatriate to impersonate him for six months in order to inherit his splendidly sadistic uncle's fortune; the nephew is poisoned, and suspicion falls upon Dawson, who travels to Britain to avenge the crime. Full of excitement and tension, with just a touch of diffuseness in the shift from America to England—note splendid scenes at the B.B.C. and in wicked Uncle Gaylord's flat. Smash surprise solution given, very aptly, in Sherlock Holmes's rooms. Catch this Carr.

Why does Bill call his mother 'Mom'? (p. 254)

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