- Seeing is Believing (novel)
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Seeing is Believing (also published as Cross of Murder) 
1st edition (US)Author(s) John Dickson Carr writing as "Carter Dickson" Country United Kingdom Language English Series Henry Merrivale Genre(s) Mystery, Detective, Novel Publisher Morrow (US, 1941, first edition)
Heinemann (UK, 1942)Publication date 1941 Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback) Pages 204 (in Pocket Books paperback edition #386, 1946) Preceded by Murder in the Submarine Zone Followed by The Gilded Man Seeing is Believing (also published as Cross of Murder) is a mystery novel by the American writer John Dickson Carr (1906–1977), who published it under the name of Carter Dickson. It is a whodunnit and features the series detective Sir Henry Merrivale and his associate, Scotland Yard's Chief Inspector Humphrey Masters.
Plot summary
Arthur Fane arranges an unusual entertainment for his uncle, a long-term guest, and a few other witnesses—he hires Dr. Rich to hypnotise his wife Victoria. The guests, but not Victoria, have been shown that a gun in the room is actually harmless; everyone, including Victoria, is aware that a dagger provided is made of rubber. The hypnotised Victoria is invited to shoot her husband, and refuses; when told to stab him, though, she agrees. Unfortunately, someone has substituted a real dagger for the rubber one, even though everyone in the room agrees that it would have been impossible to make the substitution.
Although Sir Henry Merrivale is busily engaged in dictating his scandalous and slanderous memoirs to a ghost writer, he takes a hand to solve the murder with his friend Chief Inspector Masters, and brings things to a head just as another death occurs.
Sir Henry Merrivale series NovelsThe Plague Court Murders (1934) · The White Priory Murders (1934) · The Red Widow Murders (1935) · The Unicorn Murders (1935) · The Punch and Judy Murders (1936) · The Ten Teacups (1937) · The Judas Window (1938) · Death in Five Boxes (1938) · The Reader is Warned (1939) · And So to Murder (1940) · Murder in the Submarine Zone (1940) · Seeing is Believing (1941) · The Gilded Man (1942) · She Died a Lady (1943) · He Wouldn't Kill Patience (1944) · The Curse of the Bronze Lamp (1945) · My Late Wives (1946) · The Skeleton in the Clock (1948) · A Graveyard to Let (1949) · Night at the Mocking Widow (1950) · Behind the Crimson Blind (1952) · The Cavalier's Cup (1953) ·
Short storiesMerrivale, March and Murder (1991)Gideon Fell series NovelsHag's Nook (1933) · The Mad Hatter Mystery (1933) · The Blind Barber (1934) · The Eight of Swords (1934) · Death-Watch (1935) · The Hollow Man (1935) · The Arabian Nights Murder (1936) · To Wake the Dead (1938) · The Crooked Hinge (1938) · The Black Spectacles (1939) · The Problem of the Wire Cage (1939) · The Man Who Could Not Shudder (1940) · The Case of the Constant Suicides (1941) · Death Turns the Tables (1941) · Till Death Do Us Part (1944) · He Who Whispers (1946) · The Sleeping Sphinx (1947) · Below Suspicion (1949) · The Dead Man's Knock (1958) · In Spite of Thunder (1960) · The House at Satan's Elbow (1965) · Panic in Box C (1966) · Dark of the Moon (1968)
Short story
collectionsDr. Fell, Detective, and Other Stories (1947) · The Men Who Explained Miracles (1963) · Fell and Foul Play (1991)
The Henri Bencolin series NovelsIt Walks By Night (1930) • Castle Skull (1931) • The Lost Gallows (1931) • The Waxworks Murder (1932) •
The Four False Weapons (1937)Short stories"The Shadow of the Goat" • "The Fourth Suspect" • "The End of Justice" • "Murder In Number Four"Other novels As John Dickson CarrPoison In Jest (1932) • The Burning Court (1937) • The Emperor's Snuff-Box (1942) • The Bride of Newgate (1950) • The Devil in Velvet (1951) • The Nine Wrong Answers (1952) • Captain Cut-Throat (1955) • Patrick Butler for the Defense (1956) • Fire, Burn! (1957) • Scandal at High Chimneys: A Victorian Melodrama (1959) • The Witch of the Low Tide: An Edwardian Melodrama (1961) • The Demoniacs (1962) • Most Secret (1964) • Papa La-Bas (1968) • The Ghosts' High Noon (1970) • Deadly Hall (1971) • The Hungry Goblin: A Victorian Detective Novel (1972)As Carter DicksonThe Bowstring Murders (1934) • Fear Is the Same (1956)Categories:- 1941 novels
- Novels by John Dickson Carr
- Mystery novel stubs
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