The Problem of the Wire Cage: A Gideon Fell Mystery

Death and tennis meet in one of impossible crime master John Dickson Carr's most memorable cases.

John Dickson Carr is famous for his puzzling “impossible crime” plots, in which corpses are discovered in scenarios that seem to lack any logical explanation, concealing clues as to how the murder was committed and how the body arrived in its current setting.

Among all of Carr’s ingenious crime scenes, the present case is one of his best known: a dead man is found strangled in the middle of a cla...