The most famous of all locked-room mysteries - a classic in the crime genre.
John Dickson Carr was born in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, in 1906. IT WALKS BY NIGHT, his first published detective novel, 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 and Colonel March. Until the end of the Second World War, Carr averaged four books a year. He died in 1977.
John Dickson Carr was a master of the locked room mystery ... a
murder takes place in circumstances that make it seem impossible
for the killer to have escaped undetected ... The sheer ingenuity
of the plot is a delight
*Daily Mail*
Very few detective stories baffle me nowadays, but Mr Carr's always
do
*Agatha Christie*
A key influence on Wake Up Dead Man ... It's renowned for both the
ingenuity of its central locked-room mystery - whereby a murderous
visitor seemingly disappears into thin air - and a
fourth-wall-stretching speech by sleuth Dr Gideon Fell, who lays
out the various methods often used by writers to explain such
"impossible crimes".
*Radio Times*
Carr's 1935 locked door mystery still rivals any present day crime
novel and its status as a textbook for writers in the genre means
it is a necessary read
*Big Issue in the North*
The best Carr is the most ingenious, and my vote would go to THE
HOLLOW MAN ... The conjuror's illusion here is marvellously
clever
*Julian Symons*
Probably the most ingenious of all detective story writers in the
creation of puzzles
*T J Binyon*
No one in the history of the genre could match him for sheer
sustained ingenuity when it came to devising reader-bamboozling
locked rooms and other impossible crimes
*Encylopedia Mysteriosa*
John Dickson Carr was a master of the locked room mystery. In The
Hollow Man, one of his earliest novels, written when he was just
29, a murder takes place in circumstances that make it seem
impossible for the killer to have escaped undetected. ... The sheer
ingenuity of the plot is a delight.
*DAILY MAIL*
Carr's 1935 locked door mystery still rivals any present day crime
novel and its status as a textbook for writers in the genre means
it is a necessary read
*BIG ISSUE IN THE NORTH*
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