He Wouldn't Kill Patience

What this mystery is about:

An ingenious suicide, which somehow smells of murder, in a sealed room on the zoo grounds... A pair of professional magicians (young, hot-headed, assorted male and female) with a grudge against each other that dates back four generations... A Bornese tree-snake named Patience... A pistol shot that wrings an eager smile from a devoted relative... A dinner rapidly becoming charcoal in a very empty house all decked out for a party... A reptile house which becomes the scene of increasingly amazing events... A photograph that causes an unaccountable shock... Excitement on the catwalk of an empty theater... A burned paper match that incites a frenzied attempt upon the life a beautiful girl.

Wouldn't you like to know:

* How a murderer manages to put to shame two famous families of escape artists?

* Why Agnes Noble seems to regard the victim's death as a deliberate of discourtesy?

* How a dead snake points to a murder?

* How to get away from a Gila monster?

* The secret of Fatima, the card-playing dummy?

* How to get a confession from someone who is dead sure it can't be done?

* What happens when old Sir Henry Merrivale become the unwilling roommate of two deadly snakes and a murderer?

• Author
• Carter Dickson

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 192

• Series
• Sir Henry Merrivale

• Publisher
• International Polygonics

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780930330866

• Genres
• mystery, crime, detective, fiction

• Release date
• 1988