John Dickson Carr Books In Order
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The Department of Queer Complaints | (1940) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Men Who Explained Miracles | (1963) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Dr. Gideon Fell Books
Hag's Nook | (1932) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mad Hatter Mystery | (1933) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Eight of Swords | (1934) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Blind Barber | (1934) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Three Coffins | (1935) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Hollow Man | (1935) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Death-Watch | (1935) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Arabian Nights Murder | (1936) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Crooked Hinge | (1937) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
To Wake the Dead | (1938) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Problem of the Green Capsule | (1939) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Problem of the Wire Cage | (1939) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Man Who Could Not Shudder | (1940) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Case of the Constant Suicides | (1941) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Death Turns the Tables | (1941) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Till Death Do Us Part | (1944) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
He Who Whispers | (1946) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Sleeping Sphinx | (1947) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Below Suspicion | (1949) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Dead Man's Knock | (1958) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
In Spite of Thunder | (1960) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The House at Satan's Elbow | (1965) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Panic in Box C | (1966) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dark of the Moon | (1967) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Seat of the Scornful | (1980) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Fell and Foul Play | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Henri Bencolin Books
It Walks by Night | (1930) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Castle Skull | (1931) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Lost Gallows | (1931) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Corpse in the Waxworks | (1932) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Four False Weapons | (1937) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Sir Henry Merrivale Books
The Plague Court Murders | (1934) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The White Priory Murders | (1934) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Red Widow Murders | (1935) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Unicorn Murders | (1935) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Punch and Judy Murders | (1936) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Peacock Feather Murders | (1937) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Ten Teacups | (1937) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Judas Window | (1938) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Death in Five Boxes | (1938) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Reader Is Warned | (1939) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nine and Death Makes Ten | (1940) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
And So to Murder | (1940) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Murder in the Submarine Zone | (1940) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Seeing Is Believing | (1941) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Gilded Man | (1942) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
She Died A Lady | (1943) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
He Wouldn't Kill Patience | (1944) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Curse of the Bronze Lamp | (1945) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Lord of the Sorcerers | (1945) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
My Late Wives | (1946) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Skeleton in the Clock | (1948) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Graveyard to Let | (1949) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Night at the Mocking Widow | (1950) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Behind the Crimson Blind | (1952) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Cavalier's Cup | (1953) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Red Widow Murders | (1967) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Merrivale, March and Murder | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Merrivale Holds the Key | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
Poison in Jest | (1932) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Murder of Sir Edmund Godfrey | (1936) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Burning Court | (1937) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Fatal Descent | (1939) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Emperor's Snuff-Box | (1942) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Bride of Newgate | (1950) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Devil in Velvet | (1951) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Nine Wrong Answers | (1952) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Captain Cut-Throat | (1955) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
365+1 | (1956) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Fear Is the Same | (1956) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Fire, Burn! | (1957) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Scandal at High Chimneys | (1959) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Demoniacs | (1961) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Witch of the Low Tide | (1961) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Most Secret | (1964) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Papa La-Bas | (1968) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Ghosts' High Noon | (1969) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Deadly Hall | (1971) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Hungry Goblin | (1972) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes | (1954) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The New Exploits of Sherlock Holmes | (1954) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Door To Doom, And Other Detections | (1980) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Dead Sleep Lightly and Other Mysteries from Radio's Golden Age | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
13 to the Gallows | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Third Bullet and Other Stories | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
Publication Order of Alfred Hitchcock Presents Books
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories That Go Bump in the Night | (1940) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Stories They Wouldn't Let Me Do on TV | (1957) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Alfred Hitchcock Presents 13 More Stories They Wouldn't Let Me Do on TV | (1957) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
12 Stories They Wouldn't Let Me Do on TV | (1957) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Alfred Hitchcock Presents Stories for Late at Night | (1961) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: More Stories for Late at Night [Unabridged] | (1962) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Alfred Hitchcock's A Hangman's Dozen | (1962) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories My Mother Never Told Me | (1963) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories Not for the Nervous | (1965) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: A Month Of Mystery | (1970) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Down by the Old Blood Stream | (1971) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Master's Choice. | (1979) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Stories That Go Bump In The Night: V. 1 | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of John Dickson Carr Omnibus Books
Sleeping Sphinx / Beagle Scented Murder / Death of a Doll | (1948) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Crime on the Coast & No Flowers by Request | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Hollow Man & The House in Gallows Lane | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Locked Rooms: The Three Coffins; To Wake the Dead; The Skeleton in the Clock | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The John Dickson Carr Companion | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of British Library Crime Classics Books
The Notting Hill Mystery | (1862) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Female Detective | (1864) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Poisoned Chocolates Case | (1929) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
It Walks by Night | (1930) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Secret of High Eldersham | (1930) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Castle Skull | (1931) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mystery in the Channel | (1931) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Incredible Crime | (1931) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Murder of a Lady | (1931) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Lost Gallows | (1931) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Z Murders | (1931) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Corpse in the Waxworks | (1932) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Division Bell Mystery | (1932) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Portrait of a Murderer | (1933) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Death in Fancy Dress | (1933) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Family Matters | (1933) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Hog's Back Mystery | (1933) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Weekend at Thrackley | (1934) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Murder of My Aunt | (1934) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Quick Curtain | (1934) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Murder Underground | (1934) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Scarweather | (1934) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Death of an Airman | (1934) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Spy Paramount | (1934) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The 12.30 from Croydon | (1934) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Chianti Flask | (1934) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Lake District Murder | (1935) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Death on the Cherwell | (1935) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Cornish Coast Murder | (1935) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Death of Anton | (1936) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Death in the Tunnel | (1936) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Traitor | (1936) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Santa Klaus Murder | (1936) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Sussex Downs Murder | (1936) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Murder in Piccadilly | (1936) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mystery in White | (1937) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Bats in the Belfry | (1937) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Cheltenham Square Murder | (1937) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Excellent Intentions | (1938) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Murder in the Museum | (1938) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Antidote to Venom | (1938) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Thirteen Guests | (1938) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Port of London Murders | (1938) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Arsenal Stadium Mystery | (1939) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Seven Dead | (1939) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Verdict of Twelve | (1940) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Scream in Soho | (1940) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Death of a Busybody | (1942) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Dead Shall be Raised & Murder of a Quack | (1942) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Somebody at the Door | (1943) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Murder's a Swine: A Second World War Mystery | (1943) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Checkmate to Murder | (1944) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Fell Murder | (1944) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Murder by Matchlight | (1945) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Trouble on the Thames | (1945) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Fire in the Thatch | (1946) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Death Makes a Prophet | (1947) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Smallbone Deceased | (1950) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Calamity in Kent | (1950) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Death Has Deep Roots | (1951) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Danger Within / Death in Captivity | (1952) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Murder in the Mill-Race | (1952) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Crossed Skis | (1952) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Death on the Riviera | (1952) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Man Who Didn't Fly | (1955) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Colour Of Murder | (1957) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Christmas Egg | (1958) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Progress of a Crime | (1960) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Sergeant Cluff Stands Firm | (1960) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Methods of Sergeant Cluff | (1961) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Spoilt Kill | (1961) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Body in the Dumb River | (1961) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Due to a Death | (1963) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Surfeit of Suspects | (1964) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Belting Inheritance | (1965) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Last Best Friend | (1967) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The End of the Web | (1976) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Capital Crimes: London Mysteries | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Resorting to Murder | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Silent Nights | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Murder at the Manor | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Serpents in Eden | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Crimson Snow | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Foreign Bodies | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Long Arm of the Law | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Miraculous Mysteries | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Continental Crimes | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Blood on the Tracks | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Christmas Card Crime and Other Stories | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Golden Age of Detection Puzzle Book | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Deep Waters: Murder on the Waves | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Measure of Malice | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Pocket Detective 2: 100+ More Puzzles, Brainteasers and Conundrums | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Settling Scores: Sporting Mysteries | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Surprise for Christmas and Other Seasonal Mysteries | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Two-Way Murder | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Guilty Creatures: A Menagerie of Mysteries | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Anthologies
All but Impossible! | (1981) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Great Stories of Mystery and Suspense | (1981) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Deadly Arts | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
John Dickson Carr was an American author. He was born on November 30, 1906 and died on February 27, 1977 at the age of 70. He wrote in the mystery, detective novel, murder and historical mystery genre. John D Carr is regarded as one of the greatest writers of the Golden Age Mysteries; complex plot driven narratives in which the riddle or puzzle is paramount. John D Carr was influenced by the works of Gaston Leroux and the works of G. K. Chesterton especially the Father Brown stories. John D. Carr master the art of locked room mystery in which an investigator unravels and solves seemingly impossible crimes. His mater piece is considered to be The Dr. Fell the Hallow Man which was selected in 1981, as the best locked room mystery of all time by a panel of 17 reviewers and writers. He also used the pseudonyms Roger Fairbairn, Carr Dickson and Carter Dickson. John Dickson Carr was the son of Wooda Nicholas Carr, who was a US congressman from Pennysylvania. John attended The Hill School in Pottstown and Haveford College. In the 1930s he moved to England where he married an English woman and started his writing career. He returned to the US in 1948 already an internationally famous author. In 1950, John Carr’s biography of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle won him the first of his two special Edgar Awards from the Mystery Writes of America. In 1970, he earned the second Award in recognition of his long career, spanning over 40 years, as mystery writer.
Several of John Dickson Carr works were made into movies including The man with a cloak, Dangerous Crossing, The Emperor’s Snuffbox, That Woman Opposite, La Chambre ardente and The Burning Court. A number of his works were adopted for the TV including General Motors Presents. The TV series Colonel March of Scotland was based on his stories. John Dickson Carr also wrote many radio scripts especially for the suspense radio anthology series in the US and for the British equivalent ‘Appointment with Fear’ and also many other dramas for the BBC. He also wrote screen plays. In the US, his half an hour radio play Cabin B13 was expanded into a series on CBS from 1948 to 49 and Carr wrote 25 scripts. This radio play was also expanded into the script for the 1953 movie Dangerous Crossing. In the 1940’s John Carr hosted Murder by Experts transmitted by Mutual radio and he introduced works by other mystery authors who featured as weekly guest writers.
The Plague Court Murders is the first book of the Sir Merrivale series. Once Dean Halliday became convinced that the malevolent ghost of Lois Playge was haunting his family estate in London he invited Detective Inspector Masters and Ken Bates to investigate. They went at night and found his aunt and fiancée preparing to exorcise the spirit in a séance run by a psychic named Roger Darworth. Roger Darworth locked himself in a stone house behind the plague court as the séance proceeded, and he was found viciously murdered. The main question is who or what could have murdered him? All doors and windows were locked and bolted, and nobody could have gotten inside. The one person who can unravel and solve a crime this bizarre is locked room expert Sir Henry Merrivale. The book opens as two former espionage agents, Blake and a colleague, discuss their boss Old Marrivale who likes to seat with his feet on the desk at the war office. Old Marrivale wants the story of the Plague Court murders written but nobody has got round to actually dong it. They think old Marrivale wants the story written merely to glory himself since with the war over, he doesn’t have much glory. Old Marrivale’s department had ceased being called the Counter Espionage Service and was now simply known as the Military Intelligence Department or MID. Blake recalls his connection with the case which begun on the night of September 6, 1930. It was a rainy night and Dean Halliday walked into the smoking room of the Noughts and Cross Club and told him an unsettling story. Blake believe him only because they were friends and knew him to mature and reliable.
And So to Murder is a book of the Sir Merrivale series. Nobody has ever expected a clergyman’s daughter from East Roystead to write a scandalous bestseller and when Monica Stanton published Desire she was quickly hired by Albion Films. She had expected that she would be adapting her work but instead she assigned to assist scriptwriter William Cartwright to adapt his latest detective novel. Almost at once, a series of mysterious attempts on Monica’s life start and the flamboyant Sir Henry Marrivale is invited to investigate. Will the wily Sir Marrivale unravel the mystery, see through the intrigue and stop the perpetrator before it’s too late? The book opens at the office of Mr. Thomas Hackett at studios of Albion Films. Monica has been invited there, and she imagines it has to do with making her Book Desire into a film. She had resolved to be unimpressed by the studios of Albion’ Films, but now that she was actually in Mr. Hacketts office she can feel her heart racing and her speech a little slurred. It makes her annoyed her. The studio Albion was far better than what she had expected, and the same time she is some what surprised and thrown off balance by the man who is sitting across the desk. Mr Hackett is like the hero in her book, quiet, curt and masterful. He nodes towards a chair and with a precise an masterful gesture pulls a box of cigars from his desk and offers them to her. Then, coming to his senses, he quickly returns the box to the desk and slams the drawer shut. Mr. Hackett works for Mr. Marshlake who was the head of Albion Films and puts up the money. However, he was rarely seen. Mr Hackett is about 35 years old , short, stocky and hasa dark complexion. He and Monica engage in a discussion and at the end of it Moinca is hired to write script. Mr. Hacket is a worried man was a worried man. He is astounded at meeting Moinca Stanton, in flesh and having gone through her book ,Desire, he isn’t quite sure how much of it had gone through the censor.
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Thank you for this page – it is extremely helpful. I have been a Carr fan for as long as I can remember, and am astonished that he does not receive the accolades due to him today. His works should be in print more often than they are. Agatha Christie is a good author, but her books are simple murder mysteries & once you’ve read a few, they are relatively easy to work out long before you get to the end. Not so with Carr’s books, which are not only whodunits, but also, howdunits. What more can one ask for?
You’re welcome. Agreed he is an exceptional author.