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The Arabian Nights Murder
 
JOHN DICKSON CARR
 
 
COLLIER BOOKS Macmillan Publishing Company New York
 
 
Copyright 1936 by John
Dickson Can-Copyright renewed 1964 by John Dickson Carr
All rights reserved. No
part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means,
electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information
storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the Publisher.
Macmillan Publishing
Company
866 Third Avenue,
New York, N.Y.10022
Collier Macmillan Canada,
Inc.
This edition is published
by arrangement with Harper & Row Publishers, Inc.
Library of Congress
Cataloging in Publication Data Carr, John Dickson, 1906-1977.
The Arabian nights murder.
I. Title.
PS3505.A763A88   1985           813\52     84-14921
ISBN 0-02-018600-2 (pbk.)
10   987654321
Printed in the United States of America
 
 
1
 
"You swear by the Beard of the Prophet. Then could not the teller
of tales make us a curious story even out of a beard?"
—Arabian Nights' Entertainment
 
"I hesitated; and at length a single word, uttered distinctly but
slowly, and as if breathlessly spoken, fell upon my ear; it was, 'Whiskers!'
—Life of the Rev. R. H. Barham
 
Contents
Prologue              11
PART I
The Irishman in the Arabian Nights:
STATEMENT OF DETECTIVE-INSPECTOR JOHN CARRUTHERS
 
The Disappearing Whiskers           19
"Haroun Al Raschid's Missus"       29
The Body In The Museum                             40
"There Has Got To Be A Corpse"  52
Keys To The Dagger-Case                             63
The Inseparables At Home                            72
The Policeman Who Kicked His Helmet     83
Zobeide's Coffin Is Empty                             95
 
PART 1
 
 
The Englishman in the Arabian Nights:
 
STATEMENT OF ASSISTANT-COMMISSIONER SIR HERBERT ARMSTRONG
9. At The Bronze Doors: How
Dr. Illingworth
Played Ali Baba  113
10. The Opening Of Enchantment: How Dr.
Illingworth Played Aladdin            124
 
11.
The
Terrible Mr. Gable: How Dr. Illing-
 
 
worth
Played William Wallace
135
12.
View
From A Lift: How Dr.
Illingworth
 
 
Played
The Devil
145
13.
The
Eleven Points
157
14.
The
Secret Of The Cookery-Book
169
15.
The
Secret From Iraq
180
16.
First
Appearance Of An Actor
193
17.
Eleven
Points, Eleven Suspects
205
 
 
 
PART
II
 
 
The Scotsman in the Arabian Nights:
 
 
STATEMENT OF
 
 
SUPERINTENDENT
DAVID HADLEY
 
18.
The
Veil Is Taken From The Nights, But
 
 
Not
From The Murdere ............

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