The action also stops for a while when Merlini quotes a well-known passage from John Dickson Carr's The Three Coffins about the nature of locked-room mystery novels, and adds some flourishes of his own in relation to the problems at hand.

Part two, the core of the book, consists of a single piece: " Handcarved Coffins ", supposedly a " nonfiction account of an American crime " that suggests certain parallels with his best-known work, the difference being that Capote did not include himself as a character in the narrative when he wrote In Cold Blood.

( a. k. a. The Thousand Coffins Affair ) by Michael Avallone.

* John Dickson Carr's The Hollow Man ( 1935, U. S. title The Three Coffins ), usually considered the quintessential locked-room mystery, replete with a tongue-in-cheek philosophical disquisition on the subject by the detective, Dr. Gideon Fell

( Other families related to the Gilmans also received grants in the new town, including the Dudleys, the Leavitts, the Folsoms and the Coffins.

Coffins and their contents were carried on horse-drawn wagons.

Coffins became increasingly unpopular and went entirely out of use by the 2nd century.

( The Hollow Man ( U. S. title: The Three Coffins ), a novel by John Dickson Carr )

Coffins vary from natural cardboard and unfinished particle board ( covered with a velvet pall if there is a service ) to solid timber ; most are veneered particle board.

Coffins were bricked into its niches.

Coffins would either be shipped to Brookwood ahead of the funeral party and transported by road to one of the mortuaries at the disused cemetery stations, or travel on the same SR train as the funeral party to Brookwood and be transported from Brookwood station to the burial site or chapel by road.

The hanging Coffins are also found in the province, these are literally coffins hanging on to the branches of trees, many tourists claim there is no foul odor, the bodies were probably mummified by the atmosphere according to theory.

* Coffins cannot have any metal objects inside them, since departed souls fear metal objects, especially copper.

The Island of Thirty Coffins is a famous 1979 French television series.

Chapter 17 of the celebrated novel The Three Coffins contains Dr. Fell's equally celebrated " locked room lecture ", in which he delineates many of the methods by which apparently locked-room or impossible-crime murders might be committed.

Coffins also serve as blunt reminders of mortality.

Rodman Philbrick has also written many mysteries and thrillers for adults, including Brothers & Sinners, Coffins, and the T. D. Stash detective series, set in Key West, Florida, as well as a number of mysteries under the pen name William R. Dantz.

Soon after the New Year 1953 they moved into Manoir de Ban, a 37-acre estate overlooking the Lake Geneva in Corsier-sur-Vevey.

Bowie moved to Switzerland in 1976, purchasing a chalet in the hills to the north of Lake Geneva.

In 1967, he and his family moved back to Lake Geneva.

When Geneva moved to Beaver Falls, Old Main was the first classroom structure, completed in 1881.

Originally located in London, the commission moved to its current headquarters in Geneva in 1948.

A few months later Ami Perrin, the man who had brought Calvin to Geneva, moved into open opposition.

In November, the headquarters of the League was moved to Geneva, where the first General Assembly was held on 15 November 1920.

Knox first moved to Geneva and then to Frankfurt.

After the Nazi takeover of power in Germany, Fromm moved to Geneva and then, in 1934, to Columbia University in New York.

Robinson took a position in 2007 with a global trade union federation Public Services International based in Ferney-Voltaire, near Geneva in the French Alps, where he moved with his partner Max Riveron and their two dogs.

Seth Reed, a Colonel in the Battle of Bunker Hill moved here with his family as a Pioneer between 1787 and 1795. see also Geneva ( town ), New York

He moved to Geneva in western Switzerland shortly before Weitling's arrest.

Also in 1978, TSR Hobbies moved out of Gygax's home and into downtown Lake Geneva, above the Dungeon Hobby Shop.

Here it remained until 1870 when, following a courthouse fire in 1869 and the formation of Geneva County ( which took the southern third of Dale County ), the county seat was moved to the town of Ozark, where it remains.

In 1903 the newspaper was moved to Geneva.

With Gallatin ’ s assistance, the group settled in nearby New Geneva in 1790 and the plant operated there until 1805 when, after Gallatin sold his Greenburgh interests to the Kramers, it moved to the northern section of town, which consequently took on the name of Glassworks.

For the next four years the Germans continued operations at New Geneva until 1807 when they moved the works to present day Glassworks near Greensboro because of the discovery of an outcrop of coal at that place.

In 1969, at the age of three, Irène moved with her family to Geneva, Switzerland, where she became interested in the arts.

In the mid-1950s, the once-isolated Degar began experiencing more contact with outsiders after the Vietnamese government launched efforts to gain better control of the Central Highlands and, following the 1954 Geneva Accord, new ethnic minorities from North Vietnam moved into the area.

In the mid 1950s, the once-isolated Dega began experiencing more contact with outsiders after the Vietnamese government launched efforts to gain better control of the Central Highlands and, following the 1954 Geneva Accord, new ethnic minorities from North Vietnam moved into the area.

He received his Licence en Sciences Politiques from the University of Geneva in 1966, where he also stayed on for a year as an Assistant in Economics in the Graduate Institute of International Studies, and subsequently moved to the United States where he obtained his Ph. D. in economics from the University of Chicago.

Her mother moved to Paris to be with her daughter while she attended the League of Nations School in Geneva, Switzerland from 1930 to 1933.

By early 2009, Drudge earned millions of dollars a year, travelled extensively ( Israel, Las Vegas, Geneva ), had moved to another property in Miami and become reclusive, communicating regularly only with a select group that included Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, and Andrew Breitbart.

As secretary general he oversaw the Union's move to Brussels, sustained it in Oslo through the challenging times of World War I, then moved it again to Geneva after the war.

Alonso owned a house in Mont-sur-Rolle, near Lake Geneva from 2006 to 2010, and in February 2010 he moved house to Lugano in order to be closer to his new Formula One employer Ferrari.