Fire, Burn! Explained

Fire, Burn! is a historical mystery novel by John Dickson Carr. It is about Metropolitan Police Detective Superintendent John Cheviot who is transported back in time into the body of a police officer at the time of the force's formation in 1829, meeting its founder Sir Robert Peel and its first two Commissioners Charles Rowan and Richard Mayne.^[1] Carr considered this one of his best impossible crime novels.

Awards

1969 – Grand Prix de Littérature Policière – best foreign novel, tied with The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey

Adaptations

1971 – Morte a passo di valzer^[2] – Italian TV mini-series
BBC produced a radio play adaptation of the novel. ^[3]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Fire, Burn!. 2012-07-19. 2010-10-10. https://web.archive.org/web/20101010181547/http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/930171.Fire_Burn_. live.
2. Web site: Morte a passo di valzer (TV Mini Series 1979–) - IMDb. IMDb. 2018-07-01. 2017-02-09. https://web.archive.org/web/20170209065444/http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0874629/. live.
3. Web site: Saturday-Night Theatre: Fire, Burn! . BBC . 8 February 1975 . 1 March 2024 . 1 February 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170201015022/http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/fcdd8a153fd9416289fa75c085a38c0b . live .