She Died a Lady: Carter Dickson (1943)
The date, 1943. The author, Carter Dickson. The story, a classically macabre and unique mystery from the master of the impossible crime. The singular Rita Wainwright has found herself tangled in an...
View ArticleNine – And Death Makes Ten: Carter Dickson (1940)
This Golden Age classic wins the award for my favourite title for a crime novel ever, closely followed by Murder Is Easy by Christie (so chilling). And Carter Dickson, pseudonym of the master of the...
View ArticleBut is it a Locked Room Mystery? The case of the impossible alibi.
Recently I was having a chat with a friend about impossible crimes (believe me this doesn’t happen that often), and though not a big reader they loved the series Death In Paradise. In response to my...
View ArticleJohn Dickson Carr: The Men Who Explained Miracles (1963) – Part 1
After finishing Carr’s short story collection The Department of Queer Complaints I was devastated. Not because it was bad, but because it was brilliant, audacious and ridiculous, and contains some of...
View ArticleThe Men Who Explain Miracles – Episode 4 (part 3): The top 5 locked room...
It is with great joy that I announce that the third podcast episode of myself and JJ’s deconstructed look at the so called top 15 locked room mysteries of all time, is online for your listening...
View ArticleHow a Solution Becomes a Story – The Curse of the Bronze Lamp: Carter Dickson...
A stone cold classic set-up for a stone cold classic work from Carter Dickson, aka John Dickson Carr. Clearly inspired by the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun, the story centres around an ancient...
View ArticleThe Men Who Explain Miracles – Episode 7: part 1 -The Ages of John Dickson Carr
It is as always, with great joy, that I announce that myself and fellow blogger JJ have the next episode of our locked room mystery podcast online. This one is going to be a two parter over the two...
View ArticleThe Men Who Explain Miracles – Episode 7: part 2 -The Ages of John Dickson Carr
Part 2 is of our most recent podcast looking at John Dickson Carr’s incredible output of works is now up and ready for your listening ears! For the second round, myself and fellow bloggers JJ and Ben,...
View ArticleHags Nook: John Dickson Carr (1933)
Back to another Carr. This one is from his early years and the first novel to feature one of Carr’s titanic series detectives Dr Gideon Fell. Hags Nook concerns the terrors of Chatterham Prison, or...
View ArticleThe White Priory Murders: Carter Dickson (1934) – Does having an authors...
I continue with my current John Dickson Carr (Carter Dickson) binge, and I have come to the conclusion that I officially love being told that a work by Carr is sub standard. Because every time I then...
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The Architecture of Terror: The Curious case of John Dickson Carr’s Death...
Ah, what a joy to be back in the midst of Carrian plotting, atmosphere and cunning. In a brief hiatus on the blog to sort out some bits in what we call ‘life’, I have had some time to squeeze in a few...
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