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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{short description|1959 novel by John Dickson Carr}}<br />
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| name = Scandal At High Chimneys<br />
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| translator = <br />
| image = Image:Jdc ScandalAtHighChimneys.jpg<br />
| caption = First edition (US)<br />
| author = [[John Dickson Carr]]<br />
| cover_artist = Irv Docktor<br />
| country = United Kingdom<br />
| language = English<br />
| series = <br />
| genre = [[Historical novel|Historical]], [[Mystery novel|Mystery]], [[Detective novel]]<br />
| 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><br />
| release_date = 1959<br />
| media_type = Print ([[Hardcover|Hardback]] & [[Paperback]])<br />
| pages = 230 (1st US)<br />
| isbn = <!-- NA --><br />
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| followed_by = <br />
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'''''Scandal at High Chimneys: A 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 US and Canada by Harper & Row in August 1959.<br />
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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.<br />
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==Plot introduction==<br />
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 vast and formidable mansion, plays host to a multitude of characters. Strange things happen at the Damons': a ghost-like figure threatens; Matthew Damon gets murdered under impossible circumstances, and it takes the brilliance of [[Jonathan Whicher]] to solve the tangled puzzle.<br />
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