Death Turns the Tables
First US edition | |
| Author | John Dickson Carr |
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| Language | English |
| Series | Gideon Fell |
| Genre | Mystery, Detective novel |
| Publisher | Harper (USA, 1941) & Hamish Hamilton (UK, 1942) |
Publication date | 1941 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
| Pages | 159 pp (Berkley Medallion G281, paperback edition, 1959) |
| Preceded by | The Case of the Constant Suicides (1941) |
| Followed by | Till 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.