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  • The Dr. Gideon Fell Mysteries Volume One

    The Blind Barber, Death-Watch, and To Wake the Dead

    by John Dickson Carr ...
    Series series The Dr. Gideon Fell Mysteries
    Three Golden Age British-style whodunits from the Edgar Award–winning writer Agatha Christie called "a master magician . . . the king of the art of misdirection."One of the most popular Golden Age mystery authors, John Dickson Carr was also lauded by his peers. Agatha Christie offered him the highest praise from one mystery writer to another: "Very few detective stories baffle me, but Mr. Carr's ... Read more

    $23.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Grand Guignol

    by John Dickson Carr ...
    Narrated by Shawna Wolf ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 24 min

    Paris, 1920s. A casino glittering with bad intentions. A wedding night that ends with a severed head on the floor — and a room nobody entered, nobody left.Detective Bencolin has seen a great deal. He has not seen this.There is a madman somewhere in the crowd. A woman who knows more than she says. A Russian with a perfect alibi and a monocle that never fogs. And a murder so impossible that the only ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • The Three Coffins

    by John Dickson Carr ...
    Series series Dr. Gideon Fell
    Dr. Gideon Fell solves two impossible murders in one of the most baffling locked room mysteries ever created.Professor Charles Grimaud is found dead in his study just moments after his housekeeper watched him greet a mysterious visitor and welcome him into the room. Yet no sign of the murderer or murder weapon can be found. The housekeeper saw no one leave through the door and the snow outside the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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    The Lost Gallows

    by John Dickson Carr ...
    Narrated by John Telfer ...
    Series series British Library Crime Classics

    Unabridged

    8 hours 20 min

    As the thick, autumnal fog chokes the capital, within the fire-lit lounge of London's notorious Brimstone Club a bizarre tale is being spun for Inspector Bencolin and his friend Jeff Marle. A member of the club has been sent a model of a tiny gallows, and the word is that the folkloric hangman Jack Ketch has been stalking the streets for victims by night. The threat of this supposed bogeyman ... Read more

    $38.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Mad Hatter Mystery

    by John Dickson Carr ...
    Series series American Mystery Classics
    A corpse in a top hat leads Dr. Gideon Fell to a killer with a sick sense of humor in this mystery by the celebrated author of Hag's Nook.At the hand of an outrageous prankster, top hats are going missing all over London, snatched from the heads of some of the city's most powerful people―but is the hat thief the same as the person responsible for stealing a lost story by Edgar Allan Poe, the ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Crooked Hinge

    by John Dickson Carr ...
    Series series American Mystery Classics
    In this mystery by the acclaimed author of To Wake the Dead, an inheritance hangs in the balance in a case of stolen identities, imposters, and murder.Banished from the idyllic English countryside he once called home and en route to live with his cousin in America, Sir John Farnleigh, black sheep of the wealthy Farnleigh clan, nearly perished in the sinking of the Titanic. Though he survived the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • He Who Whispers

    by John Dickson Carr ...
    Series series British Library Crime Classics
    "Fiendishly ingenious…originally published in 1946, Carr upends the standard locked-room mystery by setting a murder in a totally exposed space: the top of a tower, in broad daylight, and with witnesses below." —Booklist, Starred ReviewCarr considered this novel one of his best works, and it is easy to see why when experiencing its ingenious plot delivered with an astounding pace and masterfully ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    The Seat of the Scornful

    by John Dickson Carr ...
    Narrated by Kris Dyer ...
    Series series British Library Crime Classics

    Unabridged

    8 hours 39 min

    When the police arrive at the holiday bungalow of the haughty Justice Ireton to find a man killed by gunshot and the high court judge brandishing a pistol, the case seems as straightforward as it is scandalous. Yet, with the incongruous assemblage of physical evidence, the judge's denial of any participation in the crime and the recent events of his daughter's love life combined, the deceptively ... Read more

    $36.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    It Walks by Night

    by John Dickson Carr ...
    Narrated by Ben Tucker ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 38 min

    A ghastly crime... Monsieur de Saligny was found in a card-room of a gambling palace and secret opium den, knelt in supplication, the bloody stump where his head should have been bowed forward and resting on the floor. The head lay propped up facing toward the door several feet away. No one was seen entering or leaving the room between when M. de Saligny entered the room and when the body was ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Scandal at High Chimneys

    by John Dickson Carr ...
    A Grand Master of the British-style detective story brings Victorian England to vivid life in this murder mystery, which critic Anthony Boucher hailed as a "faultless formal puzzle in detection"In 1865, novelist Clive Strickland is relaxing at his club when his friend Victor Damon comes to him in a panic, begging Clive to help him marry off his sister to a cash-poor marquis whose affections reek ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Bride of Newgate

    by John Dickson Carr ...
    Golden Age mystery author John Dickson Carr displays his mastery of the historical mystery in this thrilling tale of courtship and punishment in Regency-era EnglandTo inherit her family fortune, beautiful Miss Caroline Ross must marry before her twenty-fifth birthday. But she has found only two breeds of husband: violent drunks and irresponsible dandies. To evade wedded agony, she chooses a spouse ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Case of the Constant Suicides

    by John Dickson Carr ...
    Series series Dr. Gideon Fell
    Dr. Gideon Fell investigates multiple impossible crimes in this celebrated mystery from the master of the locked room mystery.After Angus Campbell falls to his death from a high window, his family is summoned to his Scottish manor to settle the estate. Just before his death, Campbell took out several large life insurance policies—all of which are voided in the event of suicide. The door to the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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