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John Dickson Carr

John Dickson Carr

Pseudonym: Carter Dickson.

John Dickson Carr was born in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, in 1906. It Walks by Night, his first published detective novel, featuring the Frenchman Henri Bencolin, was published in 1930. Apart from Dr Fell, whose first appearance was in Hag's Nook in 1933, Carr's other series detectives (published under the nom de plume of Carter Dickson) were the barrister Sir Henry Merrivale, who debuted in The Plague Court Murders (1934)


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Series

Dr. Gideon Fell

Books:

The Black Spectacles, June 2024
British Library Crime Classics
Trade Paperback / e-Book
The Problem of the Wire Cage, January 2024
Dr. Gideon Fell #11
Hardcover / e-Book (reprint)
The Seat of the Scornful, June 2023
British Library Crime Classics
Paperback
The Corpse in the Waxworks, November 2021
British Library Crime Classics
Trade Size / e-Book
The Lost Gallows, April 2021
Trade Size / e-Book
It Walks by Night, March 2020
Trade Size