The Black Spectacles
First UK edition cover | |
| Author | John Dickson Carr |
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| Original title | US title: "The Problem of the Green Capsule: being the psychologist's murder case" |
| Language | English |
| Series | Gideon Fell |
| Genre | Mystery, Detective novel |
| Publisher | Hamish Hamilton (UK) & Harper (USA) |
Publication date | 1939 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 223 pp (International Polygonics paperback edition, 1986) |
| ISBN | 0-930330-51-X (International Polygonics paperback edition, 1986) |
| OCLC | 15209355 |
| Preceded by | The Crooked Hinge (1938) |
| Followed by | The Problem of the Wire Cage (1939) |
The Black Spectacles (published in the US as The Problem of the Green Capsule, with the subtitle "Being the psychologist's murder case"), first published in 1939, is a detective story by John Dickson Carr featuring his series detective Gideon Fell. This novel is a mystery of the type known as a locked room mystery (or more properly a subset of the locked room mystery called an "impossible crime" story).