| The Arabian Nights Murder | |
| Author: | John Dickson Carr |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Gideon Fell |
| Genre: | Mystery, Detective novel |
| Publisher: | Hamish Hamilton (UK) & Harper (USA) |
| Release Date: | 1936 |
| Media Type: | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages: | 317 pp (Collier Books, paperback edition, 1985) |
| Isbn: | 0-02-018600-2 |
| Isbn Note: | (Collier Books, paperback edition, 1985) |
| Dewey: | 813/.52 19 |
| Congress: | PS3505.A763 A88 1985 |
| Oclc: | 10949532 |
| Preceded By: | The Hollow Man (1935) |
| Followed By: | To Wake the Dead (1938) |
The Arabian Nights Murder, first published in 1936, 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 whodunnit.
When Scotland Yard detective John Carruthers attends the Wade Museum of Oriental Art, and begins to investigate the interior of one of a series of carriages on exhibit, he is sarcastically told by the night watchman "Watch out when you touch it! There's a dead man inside!" Of course, a dead man tumbles out. The corpse has been stabbed with an elaborate Persian dagger, is wearing an obvious set of false whiskers, and is clutching a cookbook. Gideon Fell must investigate the death and explain all the bizarre circumstances of what was a very busy night at the museum.