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    Dr. Gideon Fell is a fictional character created by John Dickson Carr. He is the protagonist of 23 mystery novels from 1933 through 1967, as well as a...
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  • and English characters. His two best-known fictional detectives (Dr. Gideon Fell and Sir Henry Merrivale) were both English. Carr is generally regarded...
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  • Gideon is a character in the Hebrew Bible. Gideon may also refer to: Gideon (name) is a male given name and surname of Hebrew origin Gideon (Book of Mormon)...
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  • his recurring investigator Gideon Fell. It contains in chapter 17 the often-reprinted "locked room lecture" in which Dr Fell speaks directly to the reader...
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    Gideon (/ˈɡɪdiən/; Hebrew: גִּדְעוֹן, Modern: Gīdʿōn, Tiberian: Gīḏəʿōn) also named Jerubbaal and Jerubbesheth, was a military leader, judge and prophet...
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    Morgue" (1841), widely considered the first detective fiction story. Dr Gideon Fell – "lexicographer" and drinker, created by John Dickson Carr Sister Fidelma...
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  • suicide is not necessarily to be trusted. Enter the gargantuan Doctor Gideon Fell, who applies his substantial powers of deduction to the problem of how...
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  • with the taking of fingerprints) disappears from a locked library. Dr. Gideon Fell investigates and reveals the surprising solution to all these questions...
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  • by American writer John Dickson Carr, featuring his series detective Gideon Fell. This novel is a mystery of the type known as a whodunnit. A young newspaperman...
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  • Gideon the Ninth is a 2019 science fantasy novel by the New Zealand writer Tamsyn Muir. It is Muir's debut novel and the first in her The Locked Tomb series...
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  • Marcus Didius Falco, by Lindsey Davis Erast Fandorin, by Boris Akunin Dr. Gideon Fell, by John Dickson Carr Feluda, by Satyajit Ray Detective Don Flack, CSI:...
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  • "impossible" crime is the work of a supernatural being (here, a vampire). Dr. Gideon Fell is featured as the detective. Carr considered this one of his best novels...
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  • detective 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 (or...
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  • character, but instead focused on creating English sleuths such as Dr. Gideon Fell and Sir Henry Merrivale. Bencolin is a juge d'instruction (examining...
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    published The Crooked Hinge, a locked-room mystery in his line of Dr. Gideon Fell detective novels. Among the puzzles presented included an automaton that...
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  • Mercury) in 1947. Most of the stories feature his series detective Gideon Fell. Dr. Gideon Fell: The Proverbial Murder: first published in Ellery Queen's Mystery...
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  • by American writer John Dickson Carr, featuring his series detective Gideon Fell. It is a mystery novel of the whodunnit type. The novel's plot begins...
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    Who Whispers by John Dickson Carr (aka Carter Dickson), one of his Dr Gideon Fell mysteries, published by Hamish Hamilton (UK) & Harper (USA) in 1946....
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  • Gideon (Hebrew: גדעון) is a masculine given name and surname of Hebrew origin which translates to "feller" or "hewer" (i.e. 'great warrior') in Hebrew...
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  • footballer Gerry Fell (footballer, born 1898) (1898–1977), English footballer Gideon Fell, fictional character created by John Dickson Carr Graeme Fell, former...
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  • locked room mystery by John Dickson Carr. However, it contains neither Gideon Fell nor Henry Merrivale, Carr's two major detectives. It was published in...
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  • 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 young...
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  • written by John Dickson Carr; the stories feature his series detectives Gideon Fell, Henry Merrivale and Colonel March, of the "Department of Queer Complaints"...
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    Dickson Carr, a writer of locked-room mysteries, has his detective Dr. Gideon Fell declare this the "best detective tale ever written", in his novel The...
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  • by American writer John Dickson Carr, featuring his series detective Gideon Fell. It is a mystery novel of the type known as a whodunnit. Mr. Septimus...
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  • detective 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....
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  • detective story by John Dickson Carr which features Carr's series detective Gideon Fell. This novel is a mystery of the type known as a whodunnit. Donald Holden...
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    Kate Fansler Amanda Cross In the Last Analysis The Edge of Doom Dr. Gideon Fell John Dickson Carr Hag's Nook Dark of the Moon Sir John Fielding and Jeremy...
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    attractive student disappears. In contrast to armchair detectives such as Dr. Gideon Fell or Hercule Poirot, Chief of Police Frank W. Ford and his men never hold...
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  • detective story by John Dickson Carr featuring his series detective Gideon Fell. This novel is a mystery of the type known as a whodunnit. Christopher...
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