Fire, Burn!
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.[citation needed]
Awards
[edit]1969 – Grand Prix de Littérature Policière – best foreign novel, tied with The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
Adaptations
[edit]1971 – Morte a passo di valzer[2] – Italian TV mini-series
BBC produced a radio play adaptation of the novel. [3]
References
[edit]- ^ "Fire, Burn!". Archived from the original on 2010-10-10. Retrieved 2012-07-19.
- ^ "Morte a passo di valzer (TV Mini Series 1979– ) - IMDb". IMDb. Archived from the original on 2017-02-09. Retrieved 2018-07-01.
- ^ "Saturday-Night Theatre: Fire, Burn!". BBC. 8 February 1975. Archived from the original on 1 February 2017. Retrieved 1 March 2024.
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