John Dickson Carr (November 30, 1906 – February 27, 1977) was an American author of detective stories, who also published using the pseudonyms Carter...
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Service in 1976. 'Cabin B13' by John Dickson Carr. 11 September 1943 'The Pit and the Pendulum', adapted by John Dickson Carr from Edgar Allan Poe, 18 September...
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Sir Henry Merrivale (category John Dickson Carr characters)
Merrivale is a fictional amateur detective created by "Carter Dickson", a pen name of John Dickson Carr (1906–1977). Also known as "the Old Man," by his initials...
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Scullery in 1998, and Tony Abbott for his novel The Postcard in 2009. John Dickson Carr, who also served as president of the MWA, won a Grand Master Award...
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refer to: The Hollow Man (1935 novel), a locked room mystery novel by John Dickson Carr The Hollow Man (1992 novel), a science fiction novel by the US writer...
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The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes (category Short story collections by John Dickson Carr)
of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (the creator of Sherlock Holmes), and by John Dickson Carr, who was the authorised biographer of the elder Conan Doyle. The first...
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Gideon Fell (category John Dickson Carr characters)
character created by John Dickson Carr. He is the protagonist of 23 mystery novels from 1933 through 1967, as well as a few short stories. Carr was an American...
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Colonel March is a fictional detective created by American writer John Dickson Carr. He appeared in a number of short stories written in the 1930s and...
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truth of espionage, as any now being told." Golden Age mystery writer John Dickson Carr, who began reviewing books for Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine in...
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The Crooked Hinge (category Novels by John Dickson Carr)
The Crooked Hinge is a mystery novel (1938) by detective novelist John Dickson Carr. It combines a seemingly impossible throat-slashing with elements...
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Caron, and based on "The Gentleman from Paris", a short story by John Dickson Carr. A young French woman, Madeline Minot, arrives in New York in 1848...
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the USA) is a 1935 locked room mystery novel by the American writer John Dickson Carr, featuring his recurring investigator Gideon Fell. It contains in...
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Canon of Sherlock Holmes (section Caleb Carr)
publication of this play was at first suppressed, Doyle's biographer, John Dickson Carr stated that it would do no good for the public to read this, a view...
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Western detective novels extensively, and the novel makes allusions to John Dickson Carr, Gaston Leroux, and others, with several mentions of Leroux's The...
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Sayers, Gladys Mitchell and Josephine Tey. Others – S. S. Van Dine, John Dickson Carr and Ellery Queen — were American, but imitated the "British" style...
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Henri Bencolin (category John Dickson Carr characters)
Henri Bencolin is a fictional detective created by John Dickson Carr. He was Carr's first series detective, appearing in five "locked-room" and "impossible...
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directed by Joseph M. Newman. Based on the 1943 play Cabin B-13 by John Dickson Carr, the story revolves around newlyweds who become physically separated...
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He Who Whispers (category Novels by John Dickson Carr)
He Who Whispers is a mystery novel (1946) by John Dickson Carr. Like many of the works by Carr, the book features a so-called "impossible crime". For...
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story by John Dickson Carr featuring his series detective Gideon Fell. This novel is a mystery of the type known as a locked room mystery. Carr considered...
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accessed 14 February 2007. S. T. Joshi, John Dickson Carr: A Critical Study. Bowling Green Press, 1990. Terry Carr (Editor), Universe 7. Doubleday, 1977...
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1968 mystery novel by John Dickson Carr Dark of the Moon, a 1985 fantasy novel by P. C. Hodgell Dark of the Moon, a 2005 novel by John Sandford Dark of the...
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The Judas Window (category Novels by John Dickson Carr)
locked room mystery novel by the American writer John Dickson Carr, writing under the name of Carter Dickson, published in 1938 and featuring detective Sir...
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Drearburh Gideon Fell, a fictional detective in novels created by John Dickson Carr Gideon (album), a 1980 album by Kenny Rogers Gideon (band), an American...
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The Case of the Constant Suicides (category Novels by John Dickson Carr)
Suicides, first published in 1941, is a detective story by John Dickson Carr. Like much of Dickson Carr's work, this novel is a locked room mystery, in addition...
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locked-room mysteries is Mike W. Barr's Maze Agency. John Dickson Carr, who also wrote as Carter Dickson, was known as "master of the locked-room mystery"...
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And So to Murder (category Novels by John Dickson Carr)
is a mystery novel by the American writer John Dickson Carr, who published it under the name of Carter Dickson. It is a whodunnit and features the series...
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She Died a Lady (category Novels by John Dickson Carr)
Lady is a mystery novel by American writer John Dickson Carr, who published it under the name of Carter Dickson. It is a whodunnit featuring the series detective...
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ancient Egypt and the first full-length historical whodunit. In 1950, John Dickson Carr published the second full-length historical mystery novel called The...
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radio play by John Dickson Carr broadcast in the United Kingdom and United States or to an old-time radio mystery anthology series by Carr, broadcast in...
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writer John Dickson Carr began reviewing books for Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine in 1969, and often praised thrillers of the time. According to Carr's biographer...
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