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John Dickson Carr Book Rankings Poll
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Henri Bencolin

It Walks by Night
The Lost Gallows
Castle Skull
The Corpse in the Waxworks
The Four False Weapons
The Door to Doom & Other Stories



Other Detectives

Poison in Jest
The Bowstring Murders
The Emperor's Snuff Box
Patrick Butler for the Defense
The Burning Court
The Nine Wrong Answers
The Third Bullet
Department of Queer Complaints



Historical Novels

Devil Kinsmere
Fear Is the Same
The Bride of Newgate
The Devil in Velvet
Captain Cut-Throat
Fire, Burn!
Scandal at High Chimneys
The Witch of the Low Tide
The Demoniacs
Most Secret
Papa La-Bas
The Ghost's High Noon
Deadly Hall
The Hungry Goblin

 Dr Gideon Fell

Hag's Nook
The Mad Hatter Mystery
The Eight of Swords
The Blind Barber
Death-Watch
The Three Coffins
The Arabian Nights Murder
To Wake the Dead
The Crooked Hinge
The Problem of the Green Capsule
The Problem of the Wire Cage
The Man Who Could Not Shudder
The Case of the Constant Suicides
The Seat of the Scornful
Till Death Do Us Part
He Who Whispers
The Sleeping Sphinx
Below Suspicion
The Dead Man's Knock
In Spite of Thunder
The House at Satan's Elbow
Panic in Box C
Dark of the Moon
Fell and Foul Play



Miscellaneous (non-voting)

The Radio Plays
Misc. Short Stories
Detection Club Round Robins
The Grandest Game in the World
Stand and Deliver
EQMM Book Reviews

 Sir Henry Merrivale

The Plague Court Murders
The White Priory Murders
The Red Widow Murders
The Unicorn Murders
The Punch and Judy Murders
The Peacock Feather Murders
The Judas Window
Death in Five Boxes
The Reader Is Warned
And So to Murder
Nine--and Death Makes Ten
Seeing Is Believing
The Gilded Man
She Died a Lady
He Wouldn't Kill Patience
The Curse of the Bronze Lamp
My Late Wives
The Skeleton in the Clock
A Graveyard to Let
Night at the Mocking Widow
Behind the Crimson Blind
The Cavalier's Cup
Merrivale, March, and Murder



Collaborations

The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes
Fall to His Death (Fatal Descent)



Non-Fiction

The Murder of Sir Edmund Godfrey
The Life of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Please check ONE (or none) of the books or subjects in each category above as your favorite, or in your opinion the best for whatever reason, then enter your name and hit the submit button. In the case of Fell or Merrivale, you can actually select up to THREE books, and you can pick TWO Historicals. If you would like to increase the ranking of other (or the same) books, you are welcome to vote multiple times (we are secret admirers of Boss Tweed). There are a lot of these selections that will never be picked as "best", but to vote for the unpopular ones will at least grant them some substance, so I encourage you to enter selections repetitively.



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