The Arabian Nights Murder Author:John Dickson Carr Collier Books edition, 2nd printing. Originally published 1936. — In the eerie, marble-pillared main hall of the Wade Museum stood an enormous black-hooded carriage with secret windows and polished brass door handles. In the dead of night, Detective Inspector John Carruthers wrenched open the door just as the night watchman screamed: "Watch out w... more »hen you touch it! There's a dead man inside! There's a great big bloody corpse lying just in..." And like a jack-in-the-box, out of the carriage sprang the body of a tall man, spectrally thin, clad in a frock coat and top hat. His chin was crested with false whiskers. His hand clutched a copy of 'Mrs. Eldridge's Manual of Home Reacipes. And from his chest sprouted the five-inch handle of a Persian dagger. Enter Dr. Gideon Fell to solve a murder as fantastic and any of the tales from the 'Thousand and One Nights', a mystery as bizarre as the Wade Museum itself.« less