After a brutal murder occurs on an ocean liner, Dr. Gideon Fell investigates the strange crime and hunts for the killer

The Case of the Blind Barber

Literature & Fiction

Carr,John Dickson

United States

Macmillan Pub. Co.

Jeff Marle tries to decide which member of Judge Matthew Quayle's unhappy household put poison in the Judge's brandy

Poison in Jest

A scene of comedy, set on a sleeper coach as it heads from London to Glasgow, marks a frothy start to this twin-locked-room adventure, featuring Dr. Gideon Fell.

The case of the constant suicides

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Thrillers & Suspense

Collier Books

The Corpse in the Waxworks

Contemporary

Macmillan USA

Death-watch

Mystery

In this Golden Age British-style mystery, Mystery Writers of America Grand Master John Dickson Carr presents Dr. Gideon Fell’s most chilling case, in which a clock-obsessed killer terrorizes London A clockmaker is puzzled by the theft of the hands of a monumental new timepiece he is preparing for a member of the nobility. That night, one of the stolen hands is found buried between a policeman’s shoulder blades, stopping his clock for all time. The crime is just peculiar enough to catch the attention of Dr. Gideon Fell, the portly detective whose formidable intellect is the terror of every criminal in London. Working closely with Scotland Yard, he finds that the case turns on the question of why the clock hands were stolen. And learning the answer will put Dr. Fell squarely in the path of a madman with nothing but time on his hands.Death-Watch is the 5th book in Special Edgar Award–winning author John Dickson Carr’s Dr. Gideon Fell Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.  

Death Watch

MacMillan Publishing Company

Henri Bencolin, a French detective, comes out of retirement to help solve the strange murder of a Parisian courtesan, who may have been killed with one of four weapons found on the scene

Four False Weapons: Being the Return of Bencolin

Collier Books (Macmillan Pub Co.)

Christopher Kent is a wealthy young man who has made a thousand-pound bet with his friend Dan Reaper that he cannot start at Johannesburg without a penny in his pocket and meet his friend at the Royal Scarlet Hotel in Piccadilly in London, England, some weeks later. Twenty-four hours before the deadline, Kent is in front of the hotel, penniless and not having eaten for a day, and decides to order breakfast and charge it to a room in the hotel. After he's finished breakfast, the hotel staff ask him to go and wake up his "wife" because a previous guest has left a valuable bracelet hidden in the room. Upon arrival at room 707, the group is met by a "Do not disturb" sign upon which has been scrawled "Dead woman"

To wake the dead

Genre Fiction

The Mad Hatter Mystery

Berkley Books G-117

Gideon Fell searches London for a gilt-painted creature who was present at the scene of a murder

The Crooked Hinge

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