• The White Priory Murders is a mystery novel by the American writer John Dickson Carr (1906–1977), who published it under the name of Carter Dickson. It...
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  • John Dickson Carr (category American expatriates in the United Kingdom)
    biography The Plague Court Murders - 1934 The White Priory Murders- 1934 The Red Widow Murders - 1935 The Unicorn Murders - 1935 The Punch and Judy Murders -1936...
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  • 1934 in literature (category Years of the 20th century in literature)
    (as Carr Dickson/Carter Dickson) The Plague Court Murders (as Carter Dickson) The White Priory Murders (as Carter Dickson) Devil Kinsmere (as Roger Fairbairn)...
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    Gideon Fell (category Characters in American novels of the 20th century)
    methods by which apparently locked-room or impossible-crime murders might be committed. In the course of his discourse, he states, off-handedly, that he...
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  • 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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  • chapter 17 the often-reprinted "locked room lecture" in which Dr Fell speaks directly to the reader, setting out the various ways in which murder can be committed...
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  • opens the book he is bringing home to edit. The book, by noted true crimes author Gaudan Cross, is on murders by poison, and it begins with the trial...
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  • explicitly about his age. In the 1940 novel And So to Murder, set in late 1939, Merrivale refers to himself as being almost 70. In the 1941 novel Seeing is Believing...
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  • who applies his substantial powers of deduction to the problem of how men can be indirectly murdered while they're inside locked, sealed and inaccessible...
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  • end of World War II, Miles Hammond is invited to the first meeting of the Murder Club in five years. When he arrives, no one else is there except Barbara...
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  • Adventure of the Dark Angels" - post-scripted as "The Case of the Ferrers" mentioned in "The Adventure of the Priory School" "The Adventure of the Two Women"...
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  • "The Murder In Number Four" (1928) It Walks By Night (1930) The Lost Gallows (1931) Castle Skull (1931 – not published in the UK until c. 1980) The Waxworks...
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  • compared to "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" by Edgar Allan Poe. A closely guarded room in a Paris gambling house, a mangled body on the floor, a severed...
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  • The Red Widow Murders is a mystery novel by the American writer John Dickson Carr (1906–1977), who published it under the name of Carter Dickson. It is...
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  • The Plague Court Murders is a mystery novel by the American writer John Dickson Carr, who wrote it under the name of Carter Dickson. The first Sir Henry...
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  • that he recognized Lesley as a murderer who killed three husbands but was never convicted . . . because she somehow got the men to inject themselves with...
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  • The Arabian Nights Murder, first published in 1936, is a detective story by John Dickson Carr featuring his series detective Gideon Fell. This novel is...
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  • The Judas Window (also published as The Crossbow Murder) is a famous locked room mystery novel by the American writer John Dickson Carr, writing under...
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  • The Black Spectacles (published in the US as The Problem of the Green Capsule, with the subtitle "Being the psychologist's murder case"), first published...
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  • in 1675 to solve a murder that is about to take place, in the body of Sir Nick Fenton. Fenton soon finds himself in love with the intended victim, Sir...
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  • The Third Bullet is a novel by Carter Dickson (pseudonym of John Dickson Carr), first edited in the United Kingdom in 1937. This novel is a "whodunit"...
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  • The Waxworks Murder, first published in 1932, is a detective story by John Dickson Carr featuring his series detective Henri Bencolin of the Parisian police...
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  • novel of the type known as a whodunnit. This novel is generally felt to be the most humorous of Dr. Fell's adventures, somewhat echoing the farcical later...
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  • The Punch and Judy Murders (also published as The Magic Lantern Murders) is a 1936 mystery novel written by John Dickson Carr under the alias of Carter...
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  • of the manuscript of an unpublished story by Edgar Allan Poe. During the meeting, it is learned that Philip Driscoll has been found murdered at the Tower...
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  • must also solve the murder of Josephine's late husband Rodney, which had happened two weeks earlier. The first murder had taken place at the country home...
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  • The Prieuré de Sion (French pronunciation: [pʁijœʁe də sjɔ̃]), translated as Priory of Sion, was a fraternal organisation founded and dissolved in France...
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  • The Men Who Explained Miracles, first published in 1963, is a volume of short stories written by John Dickson Carr; the stories feature his series detectives...
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  • archived in The Randall Garrett Megapack: 25 Classic Science Fiction Stories, published 2013 by Wildside Press THEATER; Of Mystery, Murder and Other Delights...
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  • American writer John Dickson Carr and the first to feature his series detective Gideon Fell. It is a mystery novel of the whodunnit type. Tad Rampole is a...
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