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Locked Room Puzzle
There were airstrike warnings. Alan Campbell, professor, found his sleeping compartment on the train to Glasgow. Campbell was involved with another person of the same name in a dispute currently lining the letters pages of an historical journal. He met his adversary, a woman as it turned out, on the train. Unwillingly they had to share the compartment since there had evidently been a mistake in the booking of the train and no other seats were available. They were both going to the Castle Shira. A distant cousin, Angus Campbell, had been murdered. By accident they took a journalist named Swan with them to the castle, they had believed that he was also someone distantly related to Angus.

Angus would not have committed suicide, he had insurance policies with suicide clauses; nevertheless, it seemed that he could not have been murdered, either. Angus had had a common law wife, but she was so filled with the idea that she must be respectable that she had probably filched Angus's diary to prevent others from seeing his private musings and discovering his relationship with her.

Not finding the diary impeded the investigation of Dr. Fell and others called to the scene. Amusingly a journalist, a lawyer, and an insurance agent were all present to sort out the details of Angus's death. In the course of their highly interesting stay at the castle, the two Campbell cousins become interested in each other to a great degree. Two other men encounter danger and the death of one ensued and the near death of the other occurred prior to the ultimate unraveling of the mystery.

The story is clever and highly satisfying to the reader. The Scots atmosphere is delightful.

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Carr at his best
After reading so many novels and stories by Carr, I think this is actually his best. Carr is famous for his locked-room mysteries. I think this one is the simplest, yet the most efficient and the smartest. Read it and discover by yourself!

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a really good novel by a great mystery writer
I read this book a few years ago.This book is one of my favorites of all his novels. This is a masterpiece of '40 mystery novel and it has its unique flavor.The scene in which a murder happens is a lony castle in Scotland.This murder also belongs to the so called "impossible"crime that no one dares to reason out why such unbelievable murder case could happen in our real world. And the main charcters are simply three person.The old man who occupies the old castle and his daughter and her lover. As there are few characters you would think it is easy to find who is the murderer.But not at all.That is the power of his craft. The scene is wildy like a description in a novel "Wuthering Hights".Carr's description of the scenery is always remarkbly outsupassing.He makes a scenery never forgettable. I think this book is one of his three greatest of Dr.Fell series with "the three coffin" and "the crooked hinge".