John Dickson Carr

John Dickson Carr (November 30, 1906 - February 27, 1977) was a prolific American-born author of detective stories who also published under the pen names Carter Dickson, Carr Dickson, and Roger Fairbairn. He is generally regarded as one of the greatest writers of so-called "Golden Age" mysteries, complex, plot-driven stories in which the puzzle is paramount. Most of his many novels and short stories feature the elucidation, by an eccentric detective, of apparently impossible, and seemingly supernatural, crimes. He was influenced in this regard by the works of Gaston Leroux and by the Father Brown stories of G. K. Chesterton. Carr modeled his major detective, the fat and genial lexicographer Dr. Gideon Fell, on Chesterton.

Novels as Carter Dickson

• The Bowstring Murders - 1934 (Originally published as by Carr Dickson, but Carr's publishers complained that the name was too similar to Carr's real name, so Carter Dickson was substituted.)
• The Plague Court Murders (detective: Sir Henry Merrivale) - 1934
• The White Priory Murders (Merrivale) - 1934
• The Red Widow Murders (Merrivale) - 1935
• The Unicorn Murders (Merrivale) - 1935
• The Magic Lantern Murders (Merrivale) -1936 (British title: The Punch And Judy Murders)
• The Peacock Feather Murders (Merrivale) - 1937 (British title: The Ten Teacups)
• Death In Five Boxes (Merrivale) - 1938
• The Judas Window (Merrivale) - 1938
• Fatal Descent (in collaboration with John Rhode) - 1939 (British title: Drop To His Death)
• The Reader Is Warned (Merrivale) - 1939
• And So To Murder (Merrivale) - 1940
• Nine - And Death Makes Ten (Merrivale) - 1940 (British title: Murder In The Submarine Zone)
• Seeing Is Believing (Merrivale) - 1941
• The Gilded Man (Merrivale) - 1942
• She Died A Lady (Merrivale) - 1943
• He Wouldn't Kill Patience (Merrivale) - 1944
• The Curse Of The Bronze Lamp (Merrivale) - 1945 (British title: Lord Of The Sorcerors)
• My Late Wives (Merrivale) - 1946
• The Skeleton In The Clock (Merrivale) - 1948
• A Graveyard To Let (Merrivale) - 1949
• Night At The Mocking Widow (Merrivale) - 1950
• Behind The Crimson Blind (Merrivale) - 1952
• The Cavalier's Cup (Merrivale) - 1953
• Fear Is The Same - 1956, historical mystery