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John Dickson Carr

Male : Crime Novelist. Married Clarice Cleaves in 1932 and they moved to live in England, where Clarice came from
Nationality : American Place of Birth : Uniontown, Pennsylvania

Date of Birth : 1906 Date of Death : 1977 Age : 71

Pseudonyms : Carter Dickson. Carr Dickson. Roger Fairbairn

Education : Haverford College
1930-1935
It Walks by Night
(1930 Harper) - Henri Bencolin Book
The Lost Gallows
(1931) - Henri Bencolin Book
Castle Skull
(1931 US) (1976 UK) - Henri Bencolin Book
Poison in Jest
(1932) (1951 Hamish Hamilton)
The Waxworks Murder
(1932) (in US as "The Corpse in the Waxworks") - Henri Bencolin Book
Hag's Nook
(1933) - Gideon Fell Book
The Mad Hatter Mystery
(1933) - Gideon Fell Book
The Bowstring Murders
(1933) - [As Carr Dickson]
The Eight of Swords
(1934) - Gideon Fell Book
The Plague Court Murders
(1934 Morrow) (1935 Heinemann) - as Carter Dickson
Devil Kinsmere
(1934) - [As Roger Fairbairn]
The Blind Barber
(1934 Harper) - Gideon Fell Book
Death Watch
(1935) - Gideon Fell Book
The Three Coffins
(1935 Harper) (1935 Hamish Hamilton as "The Hollow Man")
The Hollow Man
(1935) - Gideon Fell Book
The White Priory Murders
(1935) - Henry Merrivale book as Carter Dickson
The Red Window Murders
(1935) - Henry Merrivale book as Carter Dickson

1936-1940
The Unicorn Murders
(1936) - Henry Merrivale book as Carter Dickson
The Murder of Sir Edmund Godfrey
(1936 Harper)
The Magic Lantern Murders
(1936) - Henry Merrivale book as Carter Dickson
The Arabian Nights Murder
(1936) - Gideon Fell Book
The Ten Teacups
(1937) - Henry Merrivale book as Carter Dickson
The Third Bullet
(1937) - pb
The Burning Court
(1937 Harper) (1937 Hamish Hamilton)
The Four False Weapons
(1937 Harper) (1938) - Henri Bencolin Book
The Judas Window
(1938 Morrow) (1938 Heinemann) - Henry Merrivale book as Carter Dickson
Death in Five Boxes
(1938) - Henry Merrivale book as Carter Dickson
To Wake the Dead
(1938) - Gideon Fell Book
The Crooked Hinge
(1938) - Gideon Fell Book
The Black Spectacles
(1939) - Gideon Fell Book
The Reader is Warned
(1939) - Henry Merrivale book as Carter Dickson
Drop to His Death
(1939)
The Department of Queer Complaints
(1940) (1940 Heinemann) - As Carter Dickson
Murder in the Submarine Zone
(1940) - Henry Merrivale book as Carter Dickson
The Problem of the Wire Cage
(1940) - Gideon Fell Book
The Man who could Not Shudder
(1940 Harper) - Gideon Fell Book
Nine - and Death Makes Ten
(1940 Morrow) - As Carter Dickson

1941-1950
The Case of the Constant Suicides
(1941) - Gideon Fell Book
The Seat of the Scornful
(1941) - Gideon Fell Book
The Gilded Man
(1941 Morrow) (1942) - Henry Merrivale book as Carter Dickson
And so to Murder
(1941) - Henry Merrivale book as Carter Dickson
Seeing is Believing
(1942) - Henry Merrivale book as Carter Dickson
The Emperor's Snuff Box
(1942 Harper) (1943)
[Filmed in 1957 as "THat Woman Opposite"]
She Died a Lady
(1943) - Henry Merrivale book as Carter Dickson
He Wouldn't Kill Patience
(1944 Morrow & Hampton, NY) (1944 Heinemann)
- Henry Merrivale book as Carter Dickson
Till Death do Us Part
(1944) - Gideon Fell Book
He Who Whispers
(1946) - Gideon Fell Book
Lord of the Sorcerers
(1946 Heinemann) - As Carter Dickson
Lord of the Sorcerers
(1946) (1946 Heinemann) - Henry Merrivale book as Carter Dickson
My Late Wives
(1947) - Henry Merrivale book as Carter Dickson
The Sleeping Sphinx
(1947) - Gideon Fell Book
The Skeleton in the Clock
(1949) (1949 Heinemann) - Henry Merrivale book as Carter Dickson
The Life of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
(1949 John Murray)
A Graveyard to Let
(1950) - Henry Merrivale book as Carter Dickson
Below Suspicion
(1950 Hamish Hamilton) - Gideon Fell Book
The Bride of Newgate
(1950)

1951-1960
Night at the Mocking Widow
(1951) - Henry Merrivale book as Carter Dickson
The Devil in Velvet
(1951)
Behind the Crimson Blind
(1952) - Henry Merrivale book as Carter Dickson
The Nine Wrong Answers
(1952 Hamish Hamilton)
The Cavalier's Cup
(1953 Morrow,NY) - Henry Merrivale book as Carter Dickson
The Third Bullet & Other Stories
(1954 Hamish Hamilton) - Gideon Fell Book
The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes
(1954)
Captain Cut Throat
(1955 Hamish Hamilton)
Patrick Butler for the Defence
(1956 Hamish Hamilton)
Fear is the Same
(1956)
Fire, Burn!
(1957 Hamish Hamilton)
The Dead Man's Knock
(1958 Hamish Hamilton) - Gideon Fell Book
Scandal at High Chimneys
(1959)
In Spite of Thunder
(1960 Harper) (1960 Hamish Hamilton) - Gideon Fell Book

After 1961
The Witch of the Low-Tide
(1961 Hamish Hamilton)
The Demoniacs
(1962 Hamish Hamilton)
Most Secret
(1964 Hamish Hamilton)
The Men who Explained Miracles
(1963 Hamish Hamilton) - Gideon Fell Book
The House at Satan's Elbow
(1965 Hamish Hamilton) - Gideon Fell Book
Panic in Box C
(1966 Harper) (1966 Hamish Hamilton) - Gideon Fell Book
Dark of the Moon
(1967) - Gideon Fell Book
Papa La-Bas
(1969 Hamish Hamilton)
The Ghosts' High Noon
(1969 Hamish Hamilton)
Deadly Hall
(1971 Hamish Hamilton)
The Hungry Goblin
(1972 Hamish Hamilton) (1972 Harper)
The Door to Doom & Other Detections
(1980) - Gideon Fell Book







See also

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle