Carter Dickson

• Sep-2025
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First published in 1937, this classic mystery shines on today as one of the great masterpieces of the impossible crime genre.There will be ten teacups at number 4, Berwick Terrace, W.8, on Wednesday, July 31st, at 5 p.m. Precisely. The presence of th...

• 2018
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A Christmas party is punctuated by a gunshot under a policeman's watchful eye. A jewel heist is planned amidst the glitz and glamour of Oxford Street's Christmas shopping. Lost in a snowstorm, a man finds a motive for murder. This collec...

• Jun-2012
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• Jun-2012
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Only young James Answell could have committed the murder. After all, he was found unconscious in the locked room next to the body of the murdered man. His clothes were disheveled from an apparent struggle. The whiskey decanter containing the liquor h...

• Nov-2001
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Marie-Hortense Sanson's family - solid, kindly, bourgeois, and businesslike - went up in the world all during the eighteenth century, and in the nineties was powerful enough to shelter her English husband in the thick of revolutionary Paris, and late...

• Jun-1989
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• Jan-1982
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• 1953
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• 1952
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World-famous supersleuth Sir Henry Merrivale's visit to Tangier is supposed to be a vacation, but with the brazen international thief known as "Iron Chest" also in town, Sir Henry cannot resist flexing his crook-catching muscle...

• 1950
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Letters containing vicious accusations are received by Stoke Druid residents, then timid Cordelia Martin is discovered drowned in the River Lea and the incomparable sleuth Sir Henry Merrivale investigates...

• 1949
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Shortly after leaping into his swimming pool and vanishing without a trace, American arts patron and accused embezzler Frederick Manning is found dead in a nearby graveyard and his old friend, British sleuth Sir Henry Merrivale, investigates...

• 1948
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• 1946
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• 1945
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THE MYSTERIOUS [MIDDLE] EAST was where lovely Lady Helen had just returned from. In defiance of the most dire predictions, she carried back to Severn Hall a gift from the Egyptian government: and ancient bronze lamp. It had come from a tomb that H...

• 1944
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"What the Goddamnholyblazes is goin' on in here?" roared the great Sir Henry Merrivale when he saw the tropical American lizard (Amieva Amieva), two feet long, with yellow stripes and in a bad temper, coming at him at full speed down the Reptile Hous...

• 1943
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• 1942
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• 1941
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• 1940
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• 1940
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• 1939
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While visiting the house of a friend to meet Herman Pennik, who claims to be a mind reader, Dr. John Sanders ends up investigating the death of his host, an event which was predicted by Pennik shortly before it took place...

• 1938
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Carter Dickson (a.k.a. John Dickson Carr) is certainly the master of the locked-room mystery, a category which might as well be named after him. In "Death in Five Boxes," Carr presents not a locked-room mystery but a nonetheless apparently impossible...

• 1938
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H.M. SOLVES AN INCREDIBLE CRIME Avory Hume is found stabbed to death with an arrow -- in a study with bolted steel shutters and a heavy door locked from the inside. In the same room James Caplon Anwell lies unconscious, his clothes disordered as t...

• 1937
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• 1936
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• 1935
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Gasquet, France's best policeman, pursues Flamande, France's greatest criminal, on a flight from Marseilles to Paris and when the plane makes an emergency landing and a murder takes place, it is Sir Henry Merrivale's job to identify both men, each a ...

• 1934
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• 1934
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When a spiritual medium is murdered in a locked hut on a haunted estate, Sir Henry Merrivale seeks a logical solution to a ghostly crime. Plague Court is old and crumbling, long neglected after its lord, hangman's assistant Louis Playge, fell vi...

• 1934
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James Bennett has been invited to stay at White Priory for Christmas among the retinue of the glamorous Hollywood actress Marcia Tait. Her producer, her lover, the playwright for her next hit and her agent are all here, soon to become so many suspect...