John Dickson Carr

John Dickson Carr has written at least 82 books. Their most popular book is The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes with 17 saves with an average rating of 4.25⭐.

They are best known for writing in the genres Classics, Fiction, and Mystery.

Adventurous, mysterious, and funny are their most common moods.

Author Bio

John Dickson Carr was a very highly regarded American mystery writer, though he lived for most of the '30s and '40s in England, married there and set many of his books there (Wikipedia). His two main detectives, Dr. Fell and Sir Henry Merrivale, were very English (Wikipedia).

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John Dickson Carr

Author Bio

Details	Readers Count
The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes Adrian Conan Doyle John Dickson Carr	10 reads
Hag's Nook John Dickson Carr	7 reads
三口棺材 John Dickson Carr 辛可加 (Translator)	7 reads
The Hollow Man John Dickson Carr	2 reads
The Mad Hatter Mystery John Dickson Carr	5 reads
The crooked hinge. John Dickson Carr	6 reads
The House at Satan's Elbow John Dickson Carr	4 reads
Till Death Do Us Part John Dickson Carr	3 reads
The Case of the Constant Suicides John Dickson Carr	4 reads
It Walks by Night John Dickson Carr	1 read
The Case Of The Blind Barber John Dickson Carr	3 reads
The Burning Court John Dickson Carr	2 reads
The Eight of Swords John Dickson Carr	3 reads
The Emperor's Snuff-Box The Emperor's Snuff-Box John Dickson Carr	0 reads
Death-Watch John Dickson Carr	2 reads
The Arabian Nights Murder John Dickson Carr	2 reads
To Wake the Dead John Dickson Carr	2 reads
Below Suspicion John Dickson Carr	2 reads
The Sleeping Sphinx John Dickson Carr	2 reads
The Man Who Could Not Shudder The Man Who Could Not Shudder John Dickson Carr	2 reads
The Problem of the Wire Cage John Dickson Carr	2 reads
The Problem of the Green Capsule John Dickson Carr	3 reads
Panic in Box C John Dickson Carr	2 reads
In Spite of Thunder John Dickson Carr	1 read
Murder on Christmas Eve	0 reads
The Lost Gallows John Dickson Carr	1 read
Death Turns the Tables John Dickson Carr	2 reads
He Who Whispers John Dickson Carr	2 reads
Castle Skull John Dickson Carr	1 read
Murder at Christmas Murder at Christmas: Ten Classic Crime Stories for the Festive Season Dorothy L. Sayers Margery Allingham Ellis Peters Edmund Crispin John Dickson Carr John Mortimer Nicholas Blake	1 read
Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural	1 read
The dead man's knock John Dickson Carr	2 reads
Patrick Butler for the Defence John Dickson Carr	0 reads
The Murder of Sir Edmund Godfrey John Dickson Carr	0 reads
Murder on Christmas Eve Murder on Christmas Eve: Classic Mysteries for the Festive Season	0 reads
Hollow Man Hollow Man John Dickson Carr	1 read
The Devil in Velvet John Dickson Carr	0 reads
The Reader Is Warned Carter Dickson John Dickson Carr	1 read
The Nine Wrong Answers John Dickson Carr	2 reads
The Bride of Newgate The Bride of Newgate John Dickson Carr	1 read
And so to Murder And so to Murder: A Sir Henry Merrivale Mystery John Dickson Carr	1 read
Deadly Hall Deadly Hall John Dickson Carr	1 read
Captain Cut-Throat John Dickson Carr	2 reads
The Corpse in the Waxworks John Dickson Carr	1 read
The Men Who Explained Miracles John Dickson Carr	0 reads
Most Secret John Dickson Carr	1 read
The Four False Weapons John Dickson Carr	1 read
Delitti impossibili	0 reads
Только не дворецкий: Золотой век британского детектива	0 reads
The witch of the low-tide John Dickson Carr	0 reads
Scandal at High Chimneys John Dickson Carr	0 reads
The third bullet John Dickson Carr	1 read
The Locked Room Reader The Locked Room Reader John Dickson Carr Edward D. Hoch Miriam Allen deFord Lawrence G. Blochman Anthony Boucher Joseph Commings Ellery Queen Clayton Rawson Craig Rice G.K. Chesterton Morris Hershman Melville Davisson Post Israel Zangwill William Brittain	0 reads
Hag's Nook John Dickson Carr	1 read
Dark of the moon John Dickson Carr	1 read
The life of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle John Dickson Carr	0 reads
Ghosts And Scholars Michael Cox Patrick Carleton John Dickson Carr Frederick Cowles Arthur Gray Sheila Hodgson Winifred Galbraith Emma S. Duffin Chico Kidd Shane Leslie R.H. Malden L.T.C. Rolt David G. Rowlands Eleanor Scott Arnold Smith Dermot Chesson Spence Lewis Spence Montague Summers E.G. Swain B. M.R. James Sabine Baring-Gould A.C. Benson R.H. Benson Cecil Binney Andrew Caldecott Ramsey Campbell	0 reads
The Witch of the Low Tide The Witch of the Low Tide John Dickson Carr	0 reads
Fire, Burn! Fire, Burn! John Dickson Carr	0 reads
The Demoniacs The Demoniacs John Dickson Carr	0 reads
The Ghosts' High Noon The Ghosts' High Noon John Dickson Carr	0 reads
The Curse of the Bronze Lamp Carter Dickson John Dickson Carr	1 read
The Hungry Goblin John Dickson Carr	1 read
Papa La-Bas Papa La-Bas John Dickson Carr	1 read
Poison in Jest John Dickson Carr	1 read
Historical Whodunits Historical Whodunits	1 read
The Lost Gallows The Lost Gallows: A London Mystery John Dickson Carr	0 reads
Il giudice è accusato Il giudice è accusato John Dickson Carr	0 reads
Le tre bare John Dickson Carr Maria Luisa Bocchino (Translator)	0 reads
I delitti della camera chiusa Robert Arthur C. Daly King G.D.H. Cole M. McDonnell Bodkin R. Austin Freeman Robert Eustace Ronald Knox Edgar Jepson John F. Suter Margaret Cole Agatha Christie Joseph Commings John Dickson Carr Fredric Brown Lillian de la Torre	0 reads
The Plague Court Murders: A Sir Henry Merrivale Mystery John Dickson Carr	0 reads
Reader's Digest Great Detective Stories Margery Allingham Agatha Christie Wilkie Collins Edmund Crispin Charles Dickens Arthur Conan Doyle Stanley Ellin R. Austin Freeman Michael Gilbert Sue Grafton Dashiell Hammett H.C. Bailey Headon Hill Michael Innes H.R.F. Keating Peter Lovesey John D. MacDonald Ngaio Marsh W. Somerset Maugham Ed McBain Marcia Muller Emmuska Orczy Ellery Queen Linda Barnes Ian Rankin Ruth Rendell Dorothy L. Sayers Georges Simenon Julian Symons Arnold Bennett E.C. Bentley Ernest Bramah John Dickson Carr Raymond Chandler G.K. Chesterton	1 read
Great Short Tales of Mystery and Terror Roald Dahl Reader's Digest Association C.S. Forester Shirley Jackson Arthur Conan Doyle Edgar Allan Poe Truman Capote Guy de Maupassant John Russell Algernon Blackwood John Collier G. K. Chesterton Alfred Noyes M. R. James Ray Bradbury Leslie Charteris Lord Dunsany Ellery Queen Ambrose Bierce Daphne Du Maurier Thomas Burke Robert Barr John Dickson Carr André Maurois Richard Barham Middleton H.P. Lovecraft Cornell Woolrich Gilbert Highet A.M. Burrage Ian Fleming Gertrude Atherton Carl Stephenson W. W. Jacobs George Hitchcock William Hope Hodgson Ross McDonald Rudyard Kipling Georges Simenon Robert Bloch Stanley Ellin H. G. Wells Eric Stanley Gardner Saki Arthur C. Clarke Agatha Christie Evelyn Waugh	0 reads
Delitto a bordo John Dickson Carr Giuseppina Caricchio (translator)	1 read
Черные очки John Dickson Carr	1 read
Четыре орудия убийства John Dickson Carr	1 read
Occhiali neri John Dickson Carr	0 reads
The Plague Court Murders John Dickson Carr	0 reads
The curse of the bronze lamp John Dickson Carr	0 reads
English country house murders	0 reads
The Kindling Spark The Kindling Spark John Dickson Carr	0 reads
Handle With Care: Frightening Stories	0 reads

Details	Readers Count
The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes Adrian Conan Doyle John Dickson Carr	10 reads
Hag's Nook John Dickson Carr	7 reads
三口棺材 John Dickson Carr 辛可加 (Translator)	7 reads
The Hollow Man John Dickson Carr	2 reads
The Mad Hatter Mystery John Dickson Carr	5 reads
The crooked hinge. John Dickson Carr	6 reads
The House at Satan's Elbow John Dickson Carr	4 reads
Till Death Do Us Part John Dickson Carr	3 reads
The Case of the Constant Suicides John Dickson Carr	4 reads
It Walks by Night John Dickson Carr	1 read
The Case Of The Blind Barber John Dickson Carr	3 reads
The Burning Court John Dickson Carr	2 reads
The Eight of Swords John Dickson Carr	3 reads
The Emperor's Snuff-Box The Emperor's Snuff-Box John Dickson Carr	0 reads
Death-Watch John Dickson Carr	2 reads
The Arabian Nights Murder John Dickson Carr	2 reads
To Wake the Dead John Dickson Carr	2 reads
Below Suspicion John Dickson Carr	2 reads
The Sleeping Sphinx John Dickson Carr	2 reads
The Man Who Could Not Shudder The Man Who Could Not Shudder John Dickson Carr	2 reads
The Problem of the Wire Cage John Dickson Carr	2 reads
The Problem of the Green Capsule John Dickson Carr	3 reads
Panic in Box C John Dickson Carr	2 reads
In Spite of Thunder John Dickson Carr	1 read
Murder on Christmas Eve	0 reads
The Lost Gallows John Dickson Carr	1 read
Death Turns the Tables John Dickson Carr	2 reads
He Who Whispers John Dickson Carr	2 reads
Castle Skull John Dickson Carr	1 read
Murder at Christmas Murder at Christmas: Ten Classic Crime Stories for the Festive Season Dorothy L. Sayers Margery Allingham Ellis Peters Edmund Crispin John Dickson Carr John Mortimer Nicholas Blake	1 read
Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural	1 read
The dead man's knock John Dickson Carr	2 reads
Patrick Butler for the Defence John Dickson Carr	0 reads
The Murder of Sir Edmund Godfrey John Dickson Carr	0 reads
Murder on Christmas Eve Murder on Christmas Eve: Classic Mysteries for the Festive Season	0 reads
Hollow Man Hollow Man John Dickson Carr	1 read
The Devil in Velvet John Dickson Carr	0 reads
The Reader Is Warned Carter Dickson John Dickson Carr	1 read
The Nine Wrong Answers John Dickson Carr	2 reads
The Bride of Newgate The Bride of Newgate John Dickson Carr	1 read
And so to Murder And so to Murder: A Sir Henry Merrivale Mystery John Dickson Carr	1 read
Deadly Hall Deadly Hall John Dickson Carr	1 read
Captain Cut-Throat John Dickson Carr	2 reads
The Corpse in the Waxworks John Dickson Carr	1 read
The Men Who Explained Miracles John Dickson Carr	0 reads
Most Secret John Dickson Carr	1 read
The Four False Weapons John Dickson Carr	1 read
Delitti impossibili	0 reads
Только не дворецкий: Золотой век британского детектива	0 reads
The witch of the low-tide John Dickson Carr	0 reads
Scandal at High Chimneys John Dickson Carr	0 reads
The third bullet John Dickson Carr	1 read
The Locked Room Reader The Locked Room Reader John Dickson Carr Edward D. Hoch Miriam Allen deFord Lawrence G. Blochman Anthony Boucher Joseph Commings Ellery Queen Clayton Rawson Craig Rice G.K. Chesterton Morris Hershman Melville Davisson Post Israel Zangwill William Brittain	0 reads
Hag's Nook John Dickson Carr	1 read
Dark of the moon John Dickson Carr	1 read
The life of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle John Dickson Carr	0 reads
Ghosts And Scholars Michael Cox Patrick Carleton John Dickson Carr Frederick Cowles Arthur Gray Sheila Hodgson Winifred Galbraith Emma S. Duffin Chico Kidd Shane Leslie R.H. Malden L.T.C. Rolt David G. Rowlands Eleanor Scott Arnold Smith Dermot Chesson Spence Lewis Spence Montague Summers E.G. Swain B. M.R. James Sabine Baring-Gould A.C. Benson R.H. Benson Cecil Binney Andrew Caldecott Ramsey Campbell	0 reads
The Witch of the Low Tide The Witch of the Low Tide John Dickson Carr	0 reads
Fire, Burn! Fire, Burn! John Dickson Carr	0 reads
The Demoniacs The Demoniacs John Dickson Carr	0 reads
The Ghosts' High Noon The Ghosts' High Noon John Dickson Carr	0 reads
The Curse of the Bronze Lamp Carter Dickson John Dickson Carr	1 read
The Hungry Goblin John Dickson Carr	1 read
Papa La-Bas Papa La-Bas John Dickson Carr	1 read
Poison in Jest John Dickson Carr	1 read
Historical Whodunits Historical Whodunits	1 read
The Lost Gallows The Lost Gallows: A London Mystery John Dickson Carr	0 reads
Il giudice è accusato Il giudice è accusato John Dickson Carr	0 reads
Le tre bare John Dickson Carr Maria Luisa Bocchino (Translator)	0 reads
I delitti della camera chiusa Robert Arthur C. Daly King G.D.H. Cole M. McDonnell Bodkin R. Austin Freeman Robert Eustace Ronald Knox Edgar Jepson John F. Suter Margaret Cole Agatha Christie Joseph Commings John Dickson Carr Fredric Brown Lillian de la Torre	0 reads
The Plague Court Murders: A Sir Henry Merrivale Mystery John Dickson Carr	0 reads
Reader's Digest Great Detective Stories Margery Allingham Agatha Christie Wilkie Collins Edmund Crispin Charles Dickens Arthur Conan Doyle Stanley Ellin R. Austin Freeman Michael Gilbert Sue Grafton Dashiell Hammett H.C. Bailey Headon Hill Michael Innes H.R.F. Keating Peter Lovesey John D. MacDonald Ngaio Marsh W. Somerset Maugham Ed McBain Marcia Muller Emmuska Orczy Ellery Queen Linda Barnes Ian Rankin Ruth Rendell Dorothy L. Sayers Georges Simenon Julian Symons Arnold Bennett E.C. Bentley Ernest Bramah John Dickson Carr Raymond Chandler G.K. Chesterton	1 read
Great Short Tales of Mystery and Terror Roald Dahl Reader's Digest Association C.S. Forester Shirley Jackson Arthur Conan Doyle Edgar Allan Poe Truman Capote Guy de Maupassant John Russell Algernon Blackwood John Collier G. K. Chesterton Alfred Noyes M. R. James Ray Bradbury Leslie Charteris Lord Dunsany Ellery Queen Ambrose Bierce Daphne Du Maurier Thomas Burke Robert Barr John Dickson Carr André Maurois Richard Barham Middleton H.P. Lovecraft Cornell Woolrich Gilbert Highet A.M. Burrage Ian Fleming Gertrude Atherton Carl Stephenson W. W. Jacobs George Hitchcock William Hope Hodgson Ross McDonald Rudyard Kipling Georges Simenon Robert Bloch Stanley Ellin H. G. Wells Eric Stanley Gardner Saki Arthur C. Clarke Agatha Christie Evelyn Waugh	0 reads
Delitto a bordo John Dickson Carr Giuseppina Caricchio (translator)	1 read
Черные очки John Dickson Carr	1 read
Четыре орудия убийства John Dickson Carr	1 read
Occhiali neri John Dickson Carr	0 reads
The Plague Court Murders John Dickson Carr	0 reads
The curse of the bronze lamp John Dickson Carr	0 reads
English country house murders	0 reads
The Kindling Spark The Kindling Spark John Dickson Carr	0 reads
Handle With Care: Frightening Stories	0 reads

John Dickson Carr

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