- As Noted In: Notable Novels and Novellas, Phantom
- As Noted In: The Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time, Crime Writers' Association
The Devil in Velvet is a 1951 "locked-room mystery" by the American mystery writer John Dickson Carr. In it, Professor Nicholas Fenton travels back in time to Restoration London in 1675 to solve a murder. - AsNotedIn
Something woke him in the middle of the night. Perhaps it was the heavy, stifling air of closed bedroom curtains.
In his half-doze he could not remember drawing the curtains of the bed, which was three hundred years old. And it floated through his mind that he had swallowed rather a large dose of chloral hydrate, as a sleeping draught. Hence he might not have remembered.
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| Y/M/D | Association | Description | Place | Locale | Food | Event | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1951/00/00 | John Dickson Carr | Author | "The Devil in Velvet" is published. |
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| Art Type | Book | a written or printed work consisting of pages glued or sewn together along one side and bound in covers. | |
| Narrative Arts | Fiction | prose literature, especially short stories and novels, that describes imaginary events and people | |
| Narrative Arts | Murder | the unlawful premeditated killing of one human being by another | |
| Narrative Arts | Narrative | an account of connected events | |
| Art Type | Novel | long form fiction narrative that is at least 40,000 words in length | |
| Narrative Arts | Prose | ordinary written language | |
| Physics | Time Travel | the action of traveling through time into the past or the future | |
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