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 John Dickson Carr

• It Walks By Night (detective Henri Bencolin) - 1930
• Castle Skull (Bencolin) - 1931
• The Lost Gallows (Bencolin) - 1931
• Poison In Jest - 1932
• The Corpse In The Waxworks (Bencolin) - 1932 (British title: The Waxworks Murder)
• Hag's Nook (detective Dr. Gideon Fell) - 1933
• The Mad Hatter Mystery (Fell) - 1933
• The Blind Barber (Fell) - 1934
• The Eight Of Swords (Fell) - 1934
• Death-Watch (Fell) - 1935
• The Three Coffins (Fell) - 1935 (British title: The Hollow Man)
• The Arabian Nights Murder (Fell) - 1936
• The Burning Court - 1937
• The Four False Weapons, Being the Return of Bencolin (Bencolin) - 1938
• To Wake The Dead (Fell) - 1938
• The Crooked Hinge (Fell) - 1938
• The Problem Of The Green Capsule (Fell) - 1939 (British title: The Black Spectacles)
• The Problem Of The Wire Cage (Fell) - 1939
• The Man Who Could Not Shudder (Fell) - 1940
• The Case of the Constant Suicides (Fell) - 1941
• Death Turns The Tables (Fell) - 1942 (British title: The Seat Of The Scornful)
• The Emperor's Snuffbox - 1942
• Till Death Do Us Part (Fell) - 1944
• He Who Whispers (Fell) - 1946
• The Sleeping Sphinx (Fell) - 1947
• Below Suspicion (Fell) - 1949 (also features Patrick Butler)
• The Bride Of Newgate - 1950, historical mystery
• The Devil In Velvet - 1951, historical mystery
• The Nine Wrong Answers - 1952
• Captain Cut-Throat - 1955, historical mystery
• Patrick Butler For The Defence (detective Patrick Butler) - 1956
• Fire, Burn! - 1957, historical mystery
• The Dead Man's Knock (Fell) - 1958
• Scandal At High Chimneys: A Victorian Melodrama - 1959, historical mystery
• In Spite Of Thunder (Fell) - 1960
• The Witch Of The Low-Tide: An Edwardian Melodrama - 1961, historical mystery
• The Demoniacs - 1962, historical mystery
• Most Secret - 1964 (This was a revision of a novel by Carr that was published in 1934 as Devil Kinsmere under the pseudonym "Roger Fairbairn")
• The House At Satan's Elbow (Fell) - 1965
• Panic In Box C (Fell) - 1966
• Dark Of The Moon (Fell) - 1968
• Papa La-Bas - 1968, historical mystery
• The Ghosts' High Noon - 1970, historical mystery
• Deadly Hall - 1971, historical mystery
• The Hungry Goblin: A Victorian Detective Novel - 1972, (Wilkie Collins is the detective)