false 5622 4 1 Carter Dickson.
John Dickson Carr was born in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, in 1906. It Walks by Night, his first published detective novel, featuring the Frenchman Henri Bencolin, 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, who debuted in The Plague Court Murders (1934).]]> male 1906/11/30 1977/02/27 498490 0930330390 9780930330392 12 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1260649785m/498490.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1260649785s/498490.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/498490.The_Three_Coffins 3.80 59 5622 3.64 955 107 1935 930193 0020188404 9780020188407 7 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/930193.The_Crooked_Hinge 3.69 36
Only one person is in a position to identify the real Sir John. That person is Kennet Murray, Sir John's former tutor, who has the answer in the form of fingerprints taken when Sir John was a boy.

Murray's knowledge, needless to say, is dangerous. For it makes him a logical candidate for murder. In fact, one of the claimants even forewarns Murray: "I smell blood. You will have to be murdered..."

It was a shocking prediction to make. Yet that very night, in the garden of the Farnleigh estate, death struck swiftly, ruthlessly. And the victim was not Murray!

"Ingenious" is the word for THE CROOKED HINGE, a masterpiece of crime detection starring John Dickson Carr's philosophical sleuth, Dr. Gideon Fell.

Many puzzles crop up to baffle Dr. Fell. One is the strange significance of the crooked hinge. Another involves the hideous Golden Hag, a mechanical automaton.]]> 5622 3.64 955 107 1938 930176 0930330277 9780930330279 5 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1260815338m/930176.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1260815338s/930176.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/930176.The_Burning_Court 3.69 32
But then the housekeeper, a normally sensible woman, told an incredible story of a beautiful woman in the old man's room - a woman who had "walked through the wall". Who could go through a door which had been bricked up and paneled over for two hundred years, leaving an old man to a hideous death?

Edward Stevens smiled at their fears of the supernatural - until he read a manuscript on female murderers. On one of the pages was a clear photograph of a woman. Under it, in small letters, had been printed:

Marie D'Aubray
Guillotined for Murder, 1861

Edward Stevens was looking at a photograph of his own wife.]]> 5622 3.64 955 107 1937 1419648 0060810165 9780060810160 3 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1419648.The_Case_of_the_Constant_Suicides 3.66 32
Alan Campbell,
a serious young man of about thirty-five, with a sense of humor stemming from his Scotch ancestry and just the necessary amount of good looks; is not such a bookish young man (and certainly not so stuffy) that he fails to notice the strictly feminine charms of

Kathryn Campbell,
who has a hard time keeping a determined look of severity on her face (because she wants to be taken seriously in "scholarly" matters). She is brown-haired, about twenty-seven and very attractive, and she teaches at the Harpenden College for Women.

Dr. Colin Campbell,
an amiable, hearty man in his late sixties, lives in the old family castle in Scotland. He is very short in stature but has broad, burly shoulders and a ferocious grin which makes him seem both powerful and friendly.

Miss Elspat Campbell,
a middle-sized, angular woman with sharp, restless black eyes. At the well-preserved age of seventy, she is the autocrat of the family. Her Scotch brogue is terrific, her voice penetrating, and her passion for respectability verges on the morbid.

Charles E. Swan,
a tallish, leathery-faced young man in his late thirties, works on a newspaper in Canada. He has a mop of wiry mahogany-colored hair, a low, smiling voice and Scotch forebears - of which he is extremely proud. He is covering a special assignment in Scotland.

Alec Forbes,
a man of some education but with no wisdom at all about money. He is lean and dark-faced and is inclined to be moody, to drink too much and to collect enemies. He is an inventor of sorts and a famous cyclist.

Gideon Fell,
though a distinguished scholar, has a bandit mustache that goes well with the salty gusto of his talk and manner. A ponderous man, he seems to fill any room he enters. When he sits down it is like a man-o'-war easing into dock.

Alistair Duncan,
tall, stoop-shouldered and somewhat nearsighted, has a large Adam's apple and grizzled hair around a pale bald spot. He has a dry voice, a bleak smile, and a fair law practice in Scotland.

Walter Chapman,
the sort of young man who grows a beard at twenty-one and spends the rest of his life living up to it, is fresh-faced, fashionably dressed, and suave of tongue. He is a well-chosen representative of the Hercules Insurance Company.

THINGS THIS MYSTERY IS ABOUT -

Four insurance policies...
A leather and metal dog carrier...
Some very old scotch whisky...
A missing diary...
A quantity of dry ice...
The license plate MGM 1911
A dressing-gown cord...
A disjointed fishing rod...]]> 5622 3.64 955 107 1941 498488 0786701013 9780786701018 1 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175266933m/498488.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175266933s/498488.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/498488.The_Devil_in_Velvet 3.87 30 5622 3.64 955 107 1951 930190 0881842206 9780881842203 3 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1260820173m/930190.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1260820173s/930190.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/930190.The_Nine_Wrong_Answers 3.69 29
Try your wits on the 9 wrong answers:

1. Was Bill Dawson walking into a trap?
2. Was the first murder a suicide?
3. Would dinner at Gaylord's end in death?
4. What happened to the lawyer's secretary?
5. Which beautiful girl was on Dawson's side?
6. Were there a dozen murders, or only one?
7. Would Dawson hang for another man's crime?
8. Was his best friend part of the conspiracy?
9. Could the dead do murder?

John Dickson Carr dazzles you with nine wrong solutions to his most exciting and extraordinary mystery - then reveals the explosive, the astonishing, hidden right answer!]]> 5622 3.64 955 107 1952 930199 1568659555 9781568659558 7 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1260625238m/930199.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1260625238s/930199.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/930199.Hag_s_Nook 3.75 28 5622 3.64 955 107 1932 930171 0441229107 9780441229109 2 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1260820403m/930171.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1260820403s/930171.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/930171.Fire_Burn_ 3.74 27 5622 3.64 955 107 1957 808477 0930330382 9780930330385 4 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178574584m/808477.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178574584s/808477.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/808477.He_Who_Whispers 3.84 25
One that parapet the body of Howard Brooke lay bleeding. The murderer, when Brooke's back was turned, must have drawn the sword-cane from it sheath and run him through the body. And this must have occurred between ten minutes to four and five minutes past four, when the two children discovered him dying.

Yet the evidence showed conclusively that during this time not a living soul came near him.]]> 5622 3.64 955 107 1946 498482 093033051X 9780930330514 3 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1260663646m/498482.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1260663646s/498482.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/498482.The_Problem_of_the_Green_Capsule 3.96 23
To prove his point, Chesney set up a test. With witnesses looking on, he calmly sat still while a sinister scarecrow of a man entered the room, walked over to him...and murdered him!

All the suspects were witnesses; each could alibi another. Logically, therefore, no one could have murdered Marcus Chesney. But then why was he dead?

It take Gideon Fell to unravel this Golden Age classic.]]> 5622 3.64 955 107 1939