Death Turns the Tables (1941)
Blurb:
My review:
Unquestionably the author's best
book of the 1940s: one of the very few successful attempts to combine
the problem of detection with the novel of character, and a simple and
straightforward case without the nervous hysteria of whic Carr was
becoming so unfortunately fond at this time (c.f. Seeing is Believing, also
1941).
Superb presentation of a severe cat-and-mouse judge who finds himself
suspected of murder, until Dr. Fell solves the case in remarkably short
time, discovering it to be an almost-perfect murder: although the
murderer is known, his guilt cannot be proved.