John Dickson Carr’s mystery novel
Till Death Do Us Part contains a reference to
Hamlet. John Dickson Carr has his character Dr. Fell say, “It was
the perfect picture – ahem – a dramatist hoist with his own petard” (p. 71).
That is a reference to Hamlet’s line “For ‘tis the sport to have the
engineer/Hoist with his own petard” from Act III.
Till Death Do Us
Part was published in 1944. The edition I read was the second printing of
the New Bantam Edition, published in 1965.
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