John Dickson Carr Data Base: Checklist of Books

Title / Year of Publication / Detective / Comment

It Walks by Night ( 1930) [Bencolin] : A beheading in Paris
The Lost Gallows ( 1931) [ Bencolin] : Jack Ketch in London
Castle Skull ( 1931) [ Bencolin] : Murder on the Rhine
The Corpse in the Waxworks ( 1932) [ Bencolin] : Evil events at a Paris wax museum
Poison in Jest ( 1932) [ Rossiter] : Sinister doings in Pennsylvania
Hag's Nook ( 1933) [ Fell] : Spooky abandoned prison setting
The Mad Hatter Mystery ( 1933) [ Fell] : Murder at the Tower of London
The Bowstring Murders ( 1933) [ Gaunt] : Murder in an ancient English castle
The Eight of Swords ( 1934) [ Fell] : Taroc cards? A country village murder
The Blind Barber ( 1934) [ Fell] : Hijinks on an ocean liner
Devil Kinsmere ( 1934) [ Historical (1670)] : Historical novel published under the name Roger Fairbairn
The Plague Court Murders ( 1934) [ Merrivale] : Spooky mystery set in a London backwater
The White Priory Murders ( 1934) [ Merrivale] : Country house, and a murder with no footprints left in the snow
Death-Watch ( 1935) [ Fell] : An impossible stabbing with a clock hand as the weapon
The Three Coffins (The Hollow Man) ( 1935) [ Fell] : Two impossible crimes, no less
The Red Widow Murders ( 1935) [ Merrivale] : Another 'lost house' in London murder, very atmospheric
The Unicorn Murders ( 1935) [ Merrivale] : A French chateau and an Arsene Lupin type master crook
The Murder of Sir Edmund Godfrey ( 1936) [ (none)] : Classic historical reconstruction of a true crime
The Arabian Nights Murder ( 1936) [ Fell] : Complex and amusing mystery set in a peculiar musem
The Punch and Judy Murders (The Magic Lantern Murders) ( 1936) [ Merrivale] : Very funny hijinks in Torquay or some such place
The Third Bullet ( 1937) [ Marquis] : One too many
The Four False Weapons ( 1937) [ Bencolin] : Mephisto in his dotage
The Burning Court ( 1937) [ Cross] : Witchcraft on the Main Line
The Peacock Feather Murders (The Ten Teacups) ( 1937) [ Merrivale] : A secret society?
To Wake the Dead ( 1938) [ Fell] : An unbreakable alibi
The Crooked Hinge ( 1938) [ Fell] : Complex and truly haunting
The Judas Window ( 1938) [ Merrivale] : A masterpiece, with HM serving as a barrister in a murder trial
Death in Five Boxes ( 1938) [ Merrivale] : How were the drinks poisoned?
Fatal Descent (Fall to His Death) ( 1939) [ Glass] : A locked-elevator mystery
The Problem of the Green Capsule (The Black Spectacles) ( 1939) [ Fell] : The murder was filmed, so how come they don't know who did it?
The Problem of the Wire Cage ( 1939) [ Fell] : Inexplicable murder on a tennis court
The Reader Is Warned ( 1939) [ Merrivale] : Murder by telepathy
The Man Who Could Not Shudder ( 1940) [ Fell] : Murder by a magic gun
And So to Murder ( 1940) [ Merrivale] : Mysterious happenings in a film studio
Nine -- and Death Makes Ten (Murder in the Submarine Zone) ( 1940) [ Merrivale] : An 'isolated country house' murder that happens to be set on an ocean liner
The Case of the Constant Suicides ( 1941) [ Fell] : Wonderful Scottish Higlands setting
Seeing Is Believing (Cross of Murder) ( 1941) [ Merrivale] : Murder under hypnosis
The Emperor's Snuff Box ( 1942) [ Kinross] : Zizipompom and a nasty crime
Death Turns the Tables (The Seat of the Scornful) ( 1942) [ Fell] : The biter bit
The Gilded Man ( 1942) [ Merrivale] : Nice country house murder
She Died a Lady ( 1943) [ Merrivale] : Superb mystery told in the first person by a fine protagonist
Till Death Do Us Part ( 1944) [ Fell] : Village fete -- a country cosy with a neat locked-room gimmick
He Wouldn't Kill Patience ( 1944) [ Merrivale] : Murder during the Blitz at a London zoo
The Curse of the Bronze Lamp ( 1945) [ Merrivale] : Unusual wrinkle on the Egyptian Curse gambit
He Who Whispers ( 1946) [ Fell] : Two impossible crimes in really atmospheric settings
My Late Wives ( 1946) [ Merrivale] : A village cosy about a serial murderer
The Sleeping Sphinx ( 1947) [ Fell] : Nice post-war setting
The Skeleton in the Clock ( 1948) [ Merrivale] : An old crime investigation re-opened
The Life of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ( 1949) [ (none)] : A good biography
Below Suspicion ( 1949) [ Fell] : Witchcraft and a murder trial
A Graveyard to Let ( 1949) [ Merrivale] : HM in New York
The Bride of Newgate ( 1950) [Historical (1815)] : A pre-Regency swashbuckler
Night at the Mocking Widow ( 1950) [ Merrivale] : Poison pen letters disrupt an English village
The Devil in Velvet ( 1951) [Historical (1675)] : Carr's best swashbuckler set in Restoration times
The Nine Wrong Answers ( 1952) [ (none)] : Is the 10th answer right?
The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes ( 1952) [ Holmes] : What was that business with the Canary Trainer?
Behind the Crimson Blind ( 1952) [ Merrivale] : A super-crook in Tangier
The Cavalier's Cup ( 1953) [ Merrivale] : Country house burglary
The Third Bullet and Other Stories ( 1954) [(various)] : Short story collection
Captain Cut-Throat ( 1955) [ Historical (1805)] : Napoleonic spy story of the Scarlet Pimpernel sort
Patrick Butler for the Defense ( 1956) [ Butler] : I am never wrong -- oh
Fear Is the Same ( 1956) [ Historical (1795)] : A good swashbuckler at the time of the French Revolution
Fire, Burn! ( 1957) [ Historical (1829)] : Early days of Scotland Yard
The Dead Man's Knock ( 1958) [ Fell] : A Pennsylvania college murder
Scandal at High Chimneys ( 1959) [ Historical (1865)] : A Victorian romance with lots of sex
In Spite of Thunder ( 1960) [ Fell] : Atmospheric mystery set in Switzerland
The Witch of the Low Tide ( 1961) [ Historical (1907)] : Edwardians at the seaside
The Demoniacs ( 1962) [ Historical (1757)] : The Hellfire Club and Lawrence Sterne
The Men Who Explained Miracles ( 1964) [(various)] : Short story collection
Most Secret ( 1964) [ Historical (1670)] : Another Restoration swashbuckler, revision of Devil Kinsmere
The House at Satan's Elbow ( 1965) [ Fell] : A country-house library shooting
Panic in Box C ( 1966) [ Fell] : A private theatre in Westchester County is the site of an 'impossible' crime
Dark of the Moon ( 1967) [ Fell] : Charleston, South Carolina, of all places
Papa La-Bas ( 1968) [ Historical (1858)] : Old New Orleans before the Civil War -- Voodoo
The Ghost's High Noon ( 1969) [ Historical (1912)] : New Orleans again
Deadly Hall ( 1971) [ Historical (1927)] : An English manor house transposed to New Orleans
The Hungry Goblin ( 1972) [ Historical (1869)] : Starring Wilkie Collins -- the last JDC book
The Door to Doom ( 1980) [ Bencolin et al.] : Early stories
The Department of Queer Complaints ( 1981) [March] : Short story collection
The Dead Sleep Lightly ( 1983) [(various)] : Radio Plays
Fell and Foul Play ( 1991) [Fell, et al.] : Short story collection
Merrivale, March, and Murder ( 1991) [ Merrivale et al.] : Short story collection

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