John Dickson Carr (1906–1977)

Auteur de Les exploits de Sherlock Holmes

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A propos de l'auteur

John Dickson Carr, the master of locked room mysteries, was born in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, in 1906. He was educated at Haverford College and the Sorbonne in Paris. Carr is a prolific writer with more than 80 novels and collections of short stories to his credit. He began his writing career at the afficher plus age of 26 with his first published novel, It Walks At Night. Some of his most popular works are The Three Coffins (1935), The Burning Coat (1937), and The Bride of Newgate (1951). Carr also collaborated with Adrian Doyle, the son of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes (1954). Carr met his wife in 1932 and settled in England in 1933. He was drafted by the United States military in World War II, and was ordered to remain in England and work with the BBC. He lived in many cities throughout the world until 1967, when he permanently moved to Greenville, South Carolina. John Dickson Carr also wrote mystery novels under the name Carter Dickson. He died in Greenville in 1977. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins

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Les exploits de Sherlock Holmes (1954) 804 exemplaires

The Three Coffins (1935) 797 exemplaires

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John D. Carr. Un coup sur la tabatière. (1942) 335 exemplaires

Celui qui murmure (1946) 320 exemplaires

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Le marié perd la tête (1930) 305 exemplaires

The Problem of the Green Capsule (1939) 302 exemplaires

L'arme à gauche (1935) 297 exemplaires

The Blind Barber (1934) 290 exemplaires

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Clés d'argent et figures de cire (1932) 284 exemplaires

The Judas Window (1938) — Auteur — 271 exemplaires

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La Maison de la Peste (1934) 235 exemplaires

The Red Widow Murders (1935) 232 exemplaires

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The Eight of Swords (1934) 222 exemplaires

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Below Suspicion (1949) 214 exemplaires

Mort dans l'ascenseur (1939) 213 exemplaires

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The Arabian Nights Murder (1936) 207 exemplaires

The Four False Weapons (1937) 199 exemplaires

Death in Five Boxes (1938) 198 exemplaires

Le squelette dans l'horloge (1948) 194 exemplaires

La main de marbre (1932) 186 exemplaires

The Dead Man's Knock (1958) 182 exemplaires

Le Sphinx endormi (1947) 179 exemplaires

She Died a Lady (1943) 179 exemplaires

A Graveyard to Let (1950) — Auteur — 171 exemplaires

La fiancée du pendu (1950) 169 exemplaires

And So to Murder (1940) 169 exemplaires

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Les neuf mauvaises reponses (1952) 165 exemplaires

The Witch of the Low Tide (1961) 160 exemplaires

Night at the Mocking Widow (1952) 159 exemplaires

Les Démoniaques (1962) 156 exemplaires

Lune sombre (1967) 153 exemplaires

Patrick Butler for the Defense (1956) 152 exemplaires

In Spite of Thunder (1960) 152 exemplaires

The House at Satan's Elbow (1965) 145 exemplaires

Nine — and Death Makes Ten (1940) 141 exemplaires

He Wouldn't Kill Patience (1944) 141 exemplaires

The Reader is Warned (1939) 139 exemplaires

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My Late Wives (1946) 135 exemplaires

The Cavalier's Cup (1953) 130 exemplaires

The Unicorn Murders (1935) 128 exemplaires

On n'en croit pas ses yeux (1945) 121 exemplaires

Behind the Crimson Blind (1952) 121 exemplaires

Panic in Box C (1966) 120 exemplaires

Scandal at High Chimneys (1959) 115 exemplaires

Arsenic et boutons de manchette (1937) 113 exemplaires

The Bowstring Murders (1933) 111 exemplaires

The Gilded Man (1942) 110 exemplaires

Papa Là-Bas (1968) 104 exemplaires

L'homme qui expliquait les miracles (1963) 97 exemplaires

Deadly Hall (1971) 86 exemplaires

Le grand secret (1934) 81 exemplaires

The Ghosts' High Noon (1969) 75 exemplaires

The Murder of Sir Edmund Godfrey (1962) 72 exemplaires

The Door to Doom (1980) 63 exemplaires

Fatal Descent (1939) 61 exemplaires

The Third Bullet 56 exemplaires

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The John Dickson Carr Treasury: The Three Coffins/The Burning Court (1937) 48 exemplaires

Dr. Fell Mysteries: To Wake the Dead/The Blind Barber/The Crooked Hinge/The Case of the Constant Suicides (1988) 45 exemplaires

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The Dead Sleep Lightly and Other Mysteries from Radio's Golden Age (1983) 33 exemplaires

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A John Dickson Carr Trio: The Three Coffins/The Crooked Hinge/The Case of the Constant Suicides (1957) 31 exemplaires

Fell and Foul Play (1991) 28 exemplaires

Speak of the Devil (1800) 21 exemplaires

13 to the Gallows (2008) 18 exemplaires

Dr Gideon Fell: Classic Radio Crime: The Hollow Man/The House in Gallows Lane (1997) 16 exemplaires

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The Dr. Gideon Fell Mysteries Volume One: The Blind Barber, Death-Watch, and To Wake the Dead (2018) 7 exemplaires

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J. D. Carr. 2, Dr Fell, 1935-1939 (1992) 5 exemplaires

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JD Carr 3: Sir Henry Merrivale - 1934-1937 (1993) 4 exemplaires

The Hangman Won't Wait | Will You Make a Bet with Death? (2003) 4 exemplaires

A Dr Fell Omnibus (1959) 4 exemplaires

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The Footprint in the Sky [short story] (1954) 3 exemplaires

カー短篇集. 2 3 exemplaires

Cabin B-13 | The Devil in the Summer House (2004) 3 exemplaires

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J. D. Carr. 4, Sir Henry Merrivale, 1937-1940 (1995) 3 exemplaires

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The Kindling Spark (2022) 3 exemplaires

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The Gentleman from Paris [Short Story] (1949) 3 exemplaires

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The Propagation and cultivation of indigenous trees and shrubs on the Highveld (1994) 2 exemplaires

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New Murders for Old [short story] 1 exemplaire

Persons or Things Unknown [Short Story] 1 exemplaire

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O Enigma da Virgem de Ferro Livro 41 1 exemplaire

Il-Kastell Ras ta' Mewt 1 exemplaire

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Triple Detective: Poison in Jest/About the Murder of Geraldine Foster/Pop Goes the Queen 1 exemplaire

Los anteojos negros o El caso del asesinato del psicólogo 1 exemplaire

Gideon Fell 1 exemplaire

Arthur Conan Doyle. Life and Work 1 exemplaire

The Wrong Problem 1 exemplaire

The Case of the Constant Suicides | The Mad Hatter Mystery | The Crooked Hinge (1988) 1 exemplaire

Mitt första mord : en samling detektivhistorier 1 exemplaire

℗Un ℗colpo di fucile: La *sfinge dormiente 1 exemplaire

Three Times to Freedom: The MacBean Chronicles (Volume 1) (2015) 1 exemplaire

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The Witch of the low-tide 1 exemplaire

HR.0.4. Murder in Number Four • FREE E-BOOK • 1 exemplaire

The Haverfordian, Vol. 46: June, 1926 (2017) — Directeur de publication — 1 exemplaire

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La muerta acude al teatro (1976) 1 exemplaire

Svart sanbat 1 exemplaire

The Problem of the Wire Cage | Captain Cut-Throat | She Died a Lady (1984) 1 exemplaire

O ENIGMA DA CRIPTA 1 exemplaire

The Frightened Lady / Patrick Butler for the Defense (1969) 1 exemplaire

El codo de Satanás 1 exemplaire

The One Real Horror [short story] 1 exemplaire

The Mad Hatter Mystery | The Case of the Constant Suicides | Death by Invisible Hands 1 exemplaire

The Silver Curtain [short story] 1 exemplaire

Rare John Dickson Carr / The Third Bullet and Other Stories of Detection 1st ed 1954 [Hardcover] Carr, John Dickson 1 exemplaire

El que susurra 1 exemplaire

The Murder in Number Four [short story] 1 exemplaire

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Nom légal: Carr, John Dickson
Autres noms: Dickson, Carter
Dickson, Carr
Fairbairn, Roger
Date de naissance: 1906-11-30
Date de décès: 1977-02-27
Lieu de sépulture: Springwood Cemetery, Greenville, South Carolina, USA
Sexe: male
Nationalité: USA
Lieu de naissance: Uniontown, Pennsylvania, USA
Lieu du décès: Greenville, South Carolina, USA
Lieux de résidence: England, UK
Greenville, South Carolina, USA (death)
Uniontown, Pennsylvania, USA (birth)
Études: Haverford College
The Sorbonne, Paris, France
Professions: novelist
short-story writer
Organisations: Baker Street Irregulars
Detection Club (Britain)
Prix et distinctions: MWA Grand Master (1963)
Ellery Queen prize (for short stories)

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To Wake The Dead (Dr Gideon Fell Book 9) (English… par John Dickson Carr

Do Not Disturb. Dead Woman.
Review of The Murder Room eBook (November 19, 2012) of the Harper and Brothers hardcover original (1938)

‘Let me understand this,’ he said. ‘Things have come to a fine pass. You don’t know what people are thinking even when they tell you. What do you call that?’
From the head of the table Dr. Fell put down his glass and spoke.
‘I call it,’ he said, ‘a detective story.’

'A master magician ... the King of the Art of Misdirection.' - cover blurb by Agatha Christie for this edition of To Wake the Dead.

To Wake the Dead is another one of John Dickson Carr's "impossible crime" novels featuring Dr. Gideon Fell as the amateur sleuth who explains it all when the police authorities are baffled. This one involves a dead body being found in a Piccadilly Circus hotel room with a sign hanging on the door saying "Do Not Disturb. Dead Woman."

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The front cover of the original 1938 Harper and Brothers hardcover. Image sourced from Goodreads.

Various individuals had been seen entering the room earlier in the evening but there was also a side door which allowed for unobserved exits. The woman was travelling as part of a tour group and her husband had been murdered a few weeks earlier. Now she herself has fallen victim. A bracelet has gone missing but then mysteriously reappears. A pair of mismatched women's suede shoes have been left outside the hotel room for 'polishing.' An unknown hotel employee was apparently seen outside the hotel room door with a pile of towels hiding their face. A drunken man insists that he saw a hotel employee at the country estate where the husband died. The drunk himself is arrested on suspicion, and is locked up at the time of the 2nd murder. How can it all be explained?

Dr. Fell figures it out of course, but the explanation is pretty outrageous and felt like cheating i.e. someone who couldn't have committed the crimes is still proved to be the perpetrator. It was a definite 10 out of 10 on the Berengaria Ease of Solving Scale i.e. impossible to solve by the reader.

Trivia and Links
John Dickson Carr (1906-1977) is one of the 99 authors listed in The Book of Forgotten Authors (2017) by Christopher Fowler. He is No. 20 in the alphabetical listing which you can see towards the bottom of my review here.

John Dickson Carr took the inspiration for Dr. Gideon Fell's appearance from that of author G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936), writer of the Father Brown mysteries and other works.

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Photograph of G.K. Chesterton. Image sourced from Wikipedia.

The source of the name Dr. Fell is apparently from the apocryphal epigram:

I do not like thee, Doctor Fell,
The reason why – I cannot tell;
But this I know, and know full well,
I do not like thee, Doctor Fell.

… (plus d'informations)

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The Crooked Hinge (American Mystery Classics) par John Dickson Carr

Something Crooked This Way Comes
Review of the Penzler Publishers American Mystery Classics eBook (October 1, 2019) of the Harper and Brothers hardcover original (1938)

We shall have to take our choice. On the one hand we have a somewhat preposterous suicide; but on the other hand, unfortunately, we have a more than somewhat impossible murder. Will someone kindly oblige me with an idea?

The Crooked Hinge is from towards the middle of the pack of Carr's Dr. Gideon Fell mysteries. I had randomly picked it up as a Kindle Deal of the Day and it isn't necessary to read the books in order. It is also listed quite high at #4 in a ranking of best "locked rooms / impossible crimes" novels. Carr is often considered the top writer of those scenarios. They usually involve a solution which is by necessity extremely elaborate and not very realistic, but as long as you are willing to go along, they can be very entertaining.

This one is par for the course. It takes a sort of Return of Martin Guerre scenario where there are two claimants to a baronetcy. One of them has already established themself in the position when another claimant appears, they have a lawyer and a supposed proof of their claim. Then one of the claimants dies, perhaps by suicide or was it an impossible murder? The man was observed standing outside with no one else seen nearby when he dies. The supposed "proof" also disappears. Somehow an automaton in the attic is involved, which seemingly moves unaided. Then a maid disappears. Then there appears to be a tie-in to a murder from a year ago which had previously been thought to be solved. Then there is apparent witchcraft involved.

You will think that there can't possibly be a solution to all this. Dr. Gideon Fell is of course on hand to explain it. In the end, the culprit also provides a complete confession which contains reveal after reveal, twist upon twist.

See cover at https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/...
The front cover of the original 1938 Harper and Brothers hardcover. Image sourced from Goodreads.

Trivia and Links
John Dickson Carr (1906-1977) is one of the 99 authors listed in The Book of Forgotten Authors (2017) by Christopher Fowler. He is No. 20 in the alphabetical listing which you can see towards the bottom of my review here.

This edition of The Crooked Hinge is part of the Otto Penzler American Mystery Classics series (2018-ongoing). There is a related Goodreads Listopia here with 57 books listed as of mid April 2024. There are currently 71 titles listed at the Mysterious Press online bookshop. The official website for the series at Penzler Publishers seems to show only the most recent and upcoming titles.

John Dickson Carr took the inspiration for Dr. Gideon Fell's appearance from that of author G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936), writer of the Father Brown mysteries and other works.
See photograph at https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/Gilbert_Chesterton.jpg...
Photograph of G.K. Chesterton. Image sourced from Wikipedia.
The source of the name Dr. Fell is apparently from the apocryphal epigram: