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.
Very few detective stories baffle me nowadays, but Mr Carr's always
do
*Agatha Christie*
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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