Death Turns the Tables

Death Turns the Tables
First US edition
AuthorJohn Dickson Carr
LanguageEnglish
SeriesGideon Fell
GenreMystery, Detective novel
PublisherHarper (USA, 1941) & Hamish Hamilton (UK, 1942)
Publication date
1941
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint (hardback & paperback)
Pages159 pp (Berkley Medallion G281, paperback edition, 1959)
Preceded byThe Case of the Constant Suicides (1941) 
Followed byTill Death Do Us Part (1944) 

Death Turns the Tables (1941), also published under the title The Seat of the Scornful, is a detective novel by John Dickson Carr. The novel is a mystery of the type known as a whodunnit. The story features Carr's series detective Gideon Fell, though not Carr's signature plot device of a locked-room mystery.