| 词条 | Night at the Mocking Widow |
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| name = Night at the Mocking Widow | title_orig = | translator = | image = Image:NightAtTheMockingWidow.JPG | caption = First edition | author = John Dickson Carr writing as "Carter Dickson" | cover_artist = | country = United Kingdom | language = English | series = Henry Merrivale | genre = Mystery, Detective | publisher = Morrow (US, 1950, first edition) Heinemann (UK, 1951) | release_date = 1950 | media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback) | pages = 256 (in Dell #650, 1953) | isbn = | preceded_by = A Graveyard To Let | followed_by = Behind the Crimson Blind }} Night at the Mocking Widow is a mystery novel by the American writer John Dickson Carr (1906–1977), who published it under the name of Carter Dickson{{Citation needed|reason=citation needed to prove claim|date=May 2014}}. It is a whodunnit and features the series detective Sir Henry Merrivale. Plot summaryThe English village of Stoke Druid in Somerset has been plagued by a series of vicious anonymous letters written by a poison-pen who becomes known as the "Mocking Widow", after a forty-foot high rocky feature on the outskirts of the village. A middle-aged spinster who has been tormented by the letters' suggestions of sexual immorality commits suicide. Sir Henry Merrivale is offered an incredibly rare volume of memoirs by the village bookseller if he exposes the poison-pen, and accepts. During the investigation, a young woman is frightened nearly to death by the Widow's threats to visit her in her bedroom—she sees the Widow in her bedroom at the time and place previously announced, in circumstances that seem impossible for anyone to have been there. Then a village blackmailer who may have been the Widow's assistant is murdered, and Sir Henry brings the series of crimes home to their perpetrator. {{John Dickson Carr}}{{1950s-mystery-novel-stub}} 4 : 1950 American novels|Novels by John Dickson Carr|Novels set in Somerset|William Morrow and Company books |
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