The Third Bullet (novel)

{{Short description|1937 novel by John Dickson Carr}}

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| name = The Third Bullet

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| image = File:Third-bullet-hodder.jpg

| caption = First edition (UK)

| author = John Dickson Carr

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| country = United States

| language = English

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| genre = Mystery, detective, horror novel

| publisher = Hodder & Stoughton (UK)
Harper (USA)

| release_date = 1937

| media_type = Print (hardback & paperback)

| pages = 128

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The Third Bullet is a novel by Carter Dickson (pseudonym of John Dickson Carr), first published in the United Kingdom in 1937.

This novel is a "whodunit" and a locked-room mystery.

The two regular detectives of the author, Gideon Fell and Henry Merrivale, do not appear in this novel.