John Dickson Carr: 23 books

Book cover of The Bride of Newgate
by John Dickson Carr
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014

Golden Age mystery author John Dickson Carr displays his mastery of the historical mystery in this thrilling tale of courtship and punishment in Regency-era England To inherit her family fortune, beautiful Miss Caroline Ross must marry before her twenty-fifth birthday. But she has found only...
Book cover of The Mad Hatter Mystery
by John Dickson Carr
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019

A murdered man in a top hat leads Dr. Gideon Fell to a killer with a sick sense of humor At the hand of an outrageous prankster, top hats are going missing all over London, snatched from the heads of some of the city’s most powerful people—but is the hat thief the same as the person responsible...
Book cover of Scandal at High Chimneys
by John Dickson Carr
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014

A Grand Master of the British-style detective story brings Victorian England to vivid life in this murder mystery, which critic Anthony Boucher hailed as a “faultless formal puzzle in detection” In 1865, novelist Clive Strickland is relaxing at his club when his friend Victor Damon comes...
Book cover of The Demoniacs
by John Dickson Carr
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014

The master of the Golden Age detective novel displays his expertise in the historical whodunit with this Gothic tale of passion and bizarre murder, which Newsday hailed as “mystery fiction at its finest” When headstrong young heiress Peg Ralston flees London for Versailles, her father sends...
Book cover of In Spite of Thunder
by John Dickson Carr
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014

The master of the Golden Age British-style detective novel presents his redoubtable sleuth Dr. Gideon Fell in a baffling murder mystery set in the Swiss Alps Young Audrey Page has been warned against joining the aging film star Eve Eden and her temperamental friends at a Swiss chalet. Trustingly,...
Book cover of The Devil in Velvet
by John Dickson Carr
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014

To solve a centuries-old crime, a man makes a deal with the devil: “The fantasy, the murder and the historical action are . . . all wonderful” (San Francisco Chronicle). An aging scholar of Restoration history, Nicholas Fenton has long dreamed of traveling into the past. He has a date in...
Book cover of Trois cercueils se refermeront
by John Dickson Carr
Language: French
Release Date: January 7, 2015

Un soir d’hiver, tandis que le Professeur Charles Grimaud se trouve dans un pub avec des amis, un mystérieux inconnu les interrompt et affirme avoir vu des cadavres sortir de leurs tombes et traverser des murs. Quelques jours plus tard, alors qu’il se trouve dans son bureau fermé de l’intérieur...
Book cover of La Chambre ardente
by John Dickson Carr
Language: French
Release Date: January 15, 2014

Miles Despard, un vieux garçon de cinquante-six ans, a été enterré dans un caveau scellé au milieu de sa propriété, en présence de dizaines de témoins, à Crispen, aux portes de Philadelphie. Mais voilà que des soupçons pèsent sur sa mort. Maladie ou empoisonnement ? Pour couper court...
Book cover of Literary Expressions of African Spirituality
by Kameelah L. Martin, Beauty Bragg, James Manigault-Bryant
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2013

With a focus on the connected spiritual legacy of the black Atlantic, Literary Expressions of African Spirituality leads the way to more comprehensive trans-geographical studies of African spirituality in black art. With essays focusing on African spirituality in creative works by several trans-Atlantic...
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