John Dickson Carr Data Base: Books

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"Stand and Deliver" : (1973) [NF]
"The Grandest Game in the World" : (1946) [NF]
"Cabin B-13" : (1943) [RP]
"The Phantom Archer" : (1943) [RP]
"The Bride Vanishes" : (1942) [RP]
"Will You Make a Bet with Death?" : (1942) [RP]
"The Devil's Saint" : (1943) [RP]
"The Dragon in the Pool" : (1944) [RP]
"Death Has Four Faces" : (1944) [RP]
"Vampire Tower" : (1944) [RP]
"The Devil's Manuscript" : (1944) [RP]
"White Tiger Passage" : (1955) [RP]
"The Villa of the Damned" : (1955) [RP]
"Speak of the Devil" : (1941) [RP]
The Man Who Explained Miracles : -- (1995) [MS]
The Nine Wrong Answers : -- (1952) [CD]
Speak of the Devil : -- (1994) [RP]
The Life of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle : -- (1949) [NF]
The Murder of Sir Edmund Godfrey : -- (1936) [NF]
Fear Is the Same : -- (1956) [HN]
The Bride of Newgate : -- (1950) [HN]
The Devil in Velvet : -- (1951) [HN]
Captain Cut-Throat : -- (1955) [HN]
Fire, Burn! : -- (1957) [HN]
Scandal at High Chimneys : -- (1959) [HN]
The Witch of the Low Tide : -- (1961) [HN]
The Demoniacs : -- (1962) [HN]
Most Secret : -- (1964) [HN]
Papa La-Bas : -- (1968) [HN]
The Ghost's High Noon : -- (1969) [HN]
Deadly Hall : -- (1971) [HN]
The Hungry Goblin : -- (1972) [HN]
Devil Kinsmere : -- (1934) [HN]
It Walks by Night : Bencolin (1930) [CD]
The Lost Gallows : Bencolin (1931) [CD]
Castle Skull : Bencolin (1931) [CD]
The Corpse in the Waxworks : Bencolin (1932) [CD]
The Four False Weapons : Bencolin (1937) [CD]
"The Shadow of the Goat" : Bencolin (1926) [SS]
"The Fourth Suspect" : Bencolin (1927) [SS]
"The Ends of Justice" : Bencolin (1927) [SS]
"The Murder in Number Four" : Bencolin (1928) [SS]
Patrick Butler for the Defense : Butler (1956) [CD]
The Burning Court : Cross (1937) [MS]
Hag's Nook : Fell (1933) [CD]
The Mad Hatter Mystery : Fell (1933) [CD]
The Eight of Swords : Fell (1934) [CD]
The Blind Barber : Fell (1934) [CD]
Death-Watch : Fell (1935) [CD]
The Arabian Nights Murder : Fell (1936) [CD]
The Three Coffins : Fell (1935) [CD]
To Wake the Dead : Fell (1938) [CD]
The Crooked Hinge : Fell (1938) [CD]
The Problem of the Green Capsule : Fell (1939) [CD]
The Problem of the Wire Cage : Fell (1939) [CD]
The Man Who Could Not Shudder : Fell (1940) [CD]
The Case of the Constant Suicides : Fell (1941) [CD]
Death Turns the Tables : Fell (1942) [CD]
Till Death Do Us Part : Fell (1944) [CD]
He Who Whispers : Fell (1946) [CD]
The Sleeping Sphinx : Fell (1947) [CD]
Below Suspicion : Fell (1949) [CD]
The Dead Man's Knock : Fell (1958) [CD]
In Spite of Thunder : Fell (1960) [CD]
The House at Satan's Elbow : Fell (1965) [CD]
Panic in Box C : Fell (1966) [CD]
Dark of the Moon : Fell (1967) [CD]
Fell and Foul Play : Fell (1991) [SS]
"The Wrong Problem" : Fell (1936) [SS]
"The Proverbial Murder" : Fell (1940) [SS]
"The Locked Room" : Fell (1940) [SS]
"The Incautious Burglar" : Fell (1940) [SS]
"Invisible Hands" : Fell (1957) [SS]
"The Hangman Won't Wait" : Fell (1943) [RP]
"The Devil in the Summer-house" : Fell (1940) [RP]
"Who Killed Matthew Corbin?" : Fell (1939) [RP]
"The Black Minute" : Fell (1941) [RP]
"The Dead Sleep Lightly" : Fell (1943) [RP]
The Bowstring Murders : Gaunt (1933) [CD]
Fatal Descent : Glass (1939) [CD]
The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes : Holmes (1952) [SS]
The Emperor's Snuff Box : Kinross (1942) [CD]
The Department of Queer Complaints : March (1981) [SS]
"The New Invisible Man" : March (1938) [SS]
"The Crime in Nobody's Room" : March (1938) [SS]
"Error at Daybreak" : March (1938) [SS]
"Hot Money" : March (1939) [SS]
"Death in the Dressing Room" : March (1939) [SS]
"The Empty Flat" : March (1939) [SS]
"The Silver Curtain" : March (1939) [SS]
"The Footprint in the Sky" : March (1940) [SS]
"William Wilson's Racket" : March (1941) [SS]
"The Third Bullet" : Marquis (1937) [SS]
The Plague Court Murders : Merrivale (1934) [CD]
The White Priory Murders : Merrivale (1934) [CD]
The Red Widow Murders : Merrivale (1935) [CD]
The Unicorn Murders : Merrivale (1935) [CD]
The Punch and Judy Murders : Merrivale (1936) [CD]
The Peacock Feather Murders : Merrivale (1937) [CD]
The Judas Window : Merrivale (1938) [CD]
Death in Five Boxes : Merrivale (1938) [CD]
The Reader Is Warned : Merrivale (1939) [CD]
And So to Murder : Merrivale (1940) [CD]
Nine -- and Death Makes Ten : Merrivale (1940) [CD]
Seeing Is Believing : Merrivale (1941) [CD]
The Gilded Man : Merrivale (1942) [CD]
She Died a Lady : Merrivale (1943) [CD]
He Wouldn't Kill Patience : Merrivale (1944) [CD]
The Curse of the Bronze Lamp : Merrivale (1945) [CD]
My Late Wives : Merrivale (1946) [CD]
The Skeleton in the Clock : Merrivale (1948) [CD]
A Graveyard to Let : Merrivale (1949) [CD]
Night at the Mocking Widow : Merrivale (1950) [CD]
Behind the Crimson Blind : Merrivale (1952) [CD]
The Cavalier's Cup : Merrivale (1953) [CD]
"The House in Goblin Wood" : Merrivale (1946) [SS]
"All in a Maze" : Merrivale (1956) [SS]
Poison in Jest : Rossiter (1932) [CD]
The Men Who Explained Miracles : various (1964) [SS]
The Door to Doom : various (1980) [SS]
The Dead Sleep Lightly : various (1983) [RP]
The Third Bullet : various (1937) [SS]
Merrivale, March, and Murder : various (1991) [SS]

* Type: CD (classic detective), NF (non-fiction), SS (short stories), RP (radio plays), HN (historical novels), MS (miscellaneous). Short pieces are in quotation marks.



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