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{{short description|1959 novel by John Dickson Carr}}

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| name = Scandal At High Chimneys

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| image = [[Image:Jdc ScandalAtHighChimneys.jpg
|100px|Early paperbackcaption = First edition]] (US)

| image_caption = Early paperback edition

| author = [[John Dickson Carr]]

| cover_artist = Irv Docktor

| country = [[United Kingdom]]

| language = [[English language|English]]

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| genre = [[MysteryHistorical novel|Historical]], [[DetectiveMystery fictionnovel|DetectiveMystery]], [[NovelDetective novel]]

| publisher = [[Hamish Hamilton]] (UK) & [[Harper (publisher)|Harper]] (US)<ref>{{Cite news |date=1959-08-22 |title=Some slight-of-hand by John Dickson Carr |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-buffalo-news-some-slight-of-hand-by/171597642/ |access-date=2025-05-03 |work=The Buffalo News |pages=20}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=1959-08-23 |title=Scandal at High Chimneys, By John Dickson Carr. Harper |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-news-tribune-scandal-at-high-chimney/171597660/ |access-date=2025-05-03 |work=The News Tribune |pages=68}}</ref>

| publisher = [[Hamish Hamilton]] (UK) & [[Harper]] (USA)

| release_date = 19461959

| media_type = Print ([[Hardcover|Hardback]] & [[Paperback]])

| pages = 230 (1st US)

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'''''Scandal at High Chimneys: A [[Victorian era|Victorian]] [[Melodrama]]''''' is a historical [[mystery novel]] by [[John Dickson Carr]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Joshi |first=S. T. |author-link=S. T. Joshi |url=https://archive.org/details/johndicksoncarrc0000josh/page/61/mode/2up |title=John Dickson Carr: A Critical Study |publisher=[[Bowling Green State University Popular Press]] |year=1990 |isbn=0-87972-477-3 |pages=61}}</ref> It was published in the USAUS and Canada by Harper & Row in August 1959.

The story is set in [[London]], 1865,<ref name=":0" /> and concerns a house called High Chimneys, where secrets are hidden among the household members.

==Plot introduction==

Clive Strickland, lawyer and author, was to discover a bewildering and terrifying slice of Victorian life when his friend Victor Damon asked him to visit the family estate. The Damon family home, a hugevast and formidable mansion, plays host to a multitude of characters. Strange things happen at the Damons': a ghost -like figure threatens; NathanMatthew Damon gets murdered under impossible circumstances, and it taketakes the brilliance of [[Jonathan WicherWhicher]] to solve the tangled puzzle.

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