 The Burning Court : im having some problems with finding out where Crispen(?) is.
(im writing a thing on The Burning Court for school, so i would be very happy if some could help me with this.) [from: Scruffles] |
| photographic book about the locations of the novels of JDC : Good morning everybody,
I am Mario Gerosa, an italian journalist. In 1991 I ideated "The scenes of the crime" a photographic exhibition about the locations of the novels of JDC. The exhibition was held at the "Mystfest", the mystery convention organized in Cattolica. The photographs were made by Laura Salvati. The catalogue of the exhibition, withe texts in italian and english, was mentioned in the bibliography of "John Dickson Carr" by Roland Lacourbe.
I just knew that the publisher of the book, that is out of print, has still some copies. If anyone is interested, I'll get in touch with her.
Cheers.
[from: greenduke] |
| New Contact : Hi, Started reading locked room mysteries way back in the early seventies when i had a job working through the night(office job...yes I was taking liberties) anyway, I read all I could find in my local library and then a family came along and I had more things to worry about than locked room murders. I have recently started to re-read the books i kept from back then and I am still held by J D Carrs writing. Have not read the one Roger faibairn book yet but will keep looking on Ebay for that and others. It's early days for me as a member so i will keep looking in and hope to add comments when and where they are needed. Cheers!!! Den [from: carries] |
| I saw his birth house today : i have never read any of JDC's books but for english we had to take a pic outside his house and i did..no one prolly cares, but it was cool. i think im going to read some of his books now [from: danno87] |
| Just read my first Dickson Carr. : I own nearly three hundred books of various genres and in that collection there has been The Sleeping Sphinx for some years. An old book published in the 60s (2nd edition). I have never been so impressed with an author the first time I have read one. Excellent descriptive quality, fantastic suspense and very well rounded characters. Thank goodness I looked on the internet and found this bookgroup. I now have to read all his books and will greatly enjoy the quest of getting hold of them. I am also planning to write my own whodunnit. He is without doubt my best inspiration so far. Happy reading . Wish me luck. [from: davethedecuk] |
| Just read my first Dickson Carr. : I own nearly three hundred books of various genres and in that collection there has been The Sleeping Sphinx for some years. An old book published in the 60s (2nd edition). I have never been so impressed with an author the first time I have read one. Excellent descriptive quality, fantastic suspense and very well rounded characters. Thank goodness I looked on the internet and found this bookgroup. I now have to read all his books and will greatly enjoy the quest of getting hold of them. I am also planning to write my own whodunnit. He is without doubt my best inspiration so far. Happy reading . Wish me luck. [from: davethedecuk] |
| Witch of the Low-Tide : I suppose this may be old news, but I notice that parts of the opening of "The Witch of the Low-Tide" is a close echo of the opening passage of E. W. Hornung's "Mr. Justice Raffles." Hornung's book was published in 1909, the year in which Dickson Carr's is set.
"Afterwards he never forgot the air or the texture of that evening: the tarry smell of wood-paving after a day's heat, the remnants of sunset beyond Trafalgar Square, and a soft traffic-rumble punctuated only by the jingle of hansom-bells or the putt-putt of an occasional motor-car." (W. of the L.T.)
"And he led the way from the station, stopping once to gloat over the
sunset across Trafalgar Square, and again to inhale the tarry scent of
the warm wood-paving, which was perfume to his nostrils as the din of its
traffic was music to his ears." (Mr. J. R.) [from: Jugulator] |
| the devil in velvet : does anyone know anything about this to my mind very odd but quite entertaining book from jdc that i am reading at the moment. I realise that jdc went a bit downhill after the war, this is written in 1951, and as i haven't finished it yet it may get better but currently i find it distinctly peculiar [from: stan] |
| Centenary : John Dickson Carr was born Nov. 30, 1906. His centenary is now little more than two years away, but of his nearly 100 books maybe only a dozen are still in print for mass-market availability. Something really should be done about this to prod publishers into reprinting his books for a new generation of readers. There should also be a publicity campaign to market them, involving the popular mystery critics and the English/American Lit establishment. He might not be Hemingway or Fitzgerald, but I'll bet he sold more books than they did. Please use your influence, whatever you have -- a publisher, a reviewer, a bookseller, a teacher, whoever you know -- to push for a revival of this classic detective novelist! [from: grobius] |
| Influence of Radio, Good or Bad? : Starting around 1940, after he had written most of his famous locked-room masterpieces, JDC got into radio drama, and soon became expert at that now moribund art. Unfortunately, he picked up some bad habits that carried over into his later books: namely, the use of dialogue to convey description ("that door to our right leads to the drawing room") -- necessary in radio, but absurd in a book. Who knows what would have happened if he'd gotten into TV. [from: Grobius] |
| Meeting of JDC fans : A few members of the Fans of John Dickson Carr group met in London in late February and visited many of the places mentioned in JDC books, including a traditional club he was a member of. To read about it, please go to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fansofjohndicksoncarr/ [from: grobius] |
| Cats : I am a deceased cat. Did John Dickson Carr ever feature any cats in his mysteries? [from: budleigh] |
| Testing On-line functions : New topic: does this work? [from: grobius] |
| Another Test : Testing again.... [from: Grobius] |
| First Posting : This is a message to test the Bulletin Board [from: Grobius] |