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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
It Walks By Night It Walks By Night John Dickson Carr > GAMBLING WITH DEATH Ten minutes after the Duc de Saligny entered the card room of the elegant Parisian gambling house, the police burst in - and found the Duc's severed head, standing upright on t… OL15143667W
Below suspicion Below suspicion John Dickson Carr From the original review in the Toledo Blade, 11 December 1949: "No locked room mystery this, but still one of the best featuring Gideon Fell. An old lady dies of poison and while her late compan… OL15392239W
Castle Skull Castle Skull John Dickson Carr > FLAMES OF DEATH >The burning body of actor Myron Alison performed a sparkling *danse macabre* on the castle battlement before plunging to the earth below in a final blaze of glory. Had the legen… OL15437888W
He who whispers He who whispers John Dickson Carr From In Search Of The Classic Mystery: "The war has ended and for the first time in years, The Murder Club reconvenes in London. Miles Hammond is invited along by none other than Dr Gideon Fell, but … OL15643332W
The Twelve Crimes of Christmas The Twelve Crimes of Christmas Stanley Ellin,S. S. Rafferty,Nick O'Donohoe,Martin H. Greenberg,Dorothy L. Sayers,Ellery Queen,Rex Stout,Carol-Lynn Rossel Waugh,Isaac Asimov,Robert Somerlott,John Dickson Carr,Edward D. Hoch,Alice Scanlan Reach,August Derleth Introduction: Noel, Noel! / Isaac Asimov Christmas party / Rex Stout Do your Christmas shoplifting early / Robert Somerlott The necklace of pearls / Dorothy L. Sayers Father Crumlish celebrates C… OL17014276W
Twelve American Crime Stories Twelve American Crime Stories Cornell Woolrich,Rosemary Herbert,Leigh Brackett,Raymond Chandler,Edgar Allan Poe,William Campbell Gault,Margaret Miller,John Dickson Carr,Edward D. Hoch,Susan Glaspell,David Fly,Ellis Parker Butler [Cask of Amontillado](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41016W) / Edgar Allan Poe The silver protector / Ellis Parker Butler A jury of her peers / Susan Glaspell The other hangman / John Dickson … OL17767931W
The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes Adrian Conan Doyle,John Dickson Carr From the son of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and one of America's greatest mystery writers, John Dickson Carr, comes twelve riveting tales based on incidents or elements of the unsolved cases of Sherlock … OL1935552W
The hollow man The hollow man John Dickson Carr Professor Charles Grimaud was explaining to some friends the natural causes behind an ancient superstition about men leaving their coffins when a stranger entered and challenged Grimaud's skepticism.… OL3020856W
Sort Messe Sort Messe John Dickson Carr Sort Messe (meaning Black Mass) is the Norwegian translation of Carr's THE BURNING COURT. OL3020876W
The witch of the low-tide The witch of the low-tide John Dickson Carr This murder admits of no solution said Doctor David Garth. "But she was strangled to death. And the murderer had to leave after he had killed. He's not here now. But in some fashion, explain it how y… OL3020907W
The bride of Newgate The bride of Newgate John Dickson Carr From Wikipedia: "Miss Caroline Ross, in order to inherit a fortune, must be married but, in the London of 1815, such a marriage would turn control of the funds over to her husband. She therefore marr… OL3020909W
The dead man's knock The dead man's knock John Dickson Carr DEATH BEHIND CLOSED DOORS Young and voluptuous Rose Lestrange walked into her bedroom and plunged a razor-sharp dagger through her heart. At least that's what the police said -- it would have be… OL3020912W
The three coffins The three coffins John Dickson Carr Professor Charles Grimaud - wealthy, respectable, distinguished - is found dying in his study of a gunshot wound to the chest. His brother Pierre - an ex-con and struggling music-hall magician - had … OL3020924W
Hag's Nook Hag's Nook John Dickson Carr **Hag's Nook**, first published in 1933, is a detective novel by John Dickson Carr and the first to feature his series detective Gideon Fell. Tad Rampole is a young American traveling in England w… OL3020927W
Country House Murders Country House Murders Freeman Wills Crofts,C. Day Lewis,Philip MacDonald,P. G. Wodehouse,Arthur Conan Doyle,Gilbert Keith Chesterton,James G. Miles,Thomas Godfrey,Dorothy L. Sayers,Robert Barr,Wilkie Collins,Ruth Rendell,Ethel Lina White,Margery Allingham,Ngaio Marsh,Agatha Christie,P. D. James,John Dickson Carr,Thomas Godfrey,Michael Innes,Thomas Godfrey,R. Austin Freeman,Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy,Cyril Hare,Christianna Brand Contains: [Adventure of the Abbey Grange](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL17084226W/Adventure_of_the_Abbey_Grange) / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle A marriage tragedy / Wilkie Collins Lord Chizelrigg's … OL6985458W