John Dickson Carr Parodies and Spoilers by Members and Others

Parodies

• Nicholas Fuller's affectionate exaggeration of some of JDC's most irritating mannerisms: Chapter XX: The Truth
• What would a JDC story look like if written by a hard-boiled detective-story writer such as Raymond Chandler?
  Check out Barry Ergang's Gideon Fell, Hardboiled Sawbones
• What would a Raymond Chandler story look like if written by John Dickson Carr?
  Barry Ergang scores again with The High Little Sister in the Lake
• Some notes, 'The Wretch of the Round Pond', by Grobius regarding the updating of Carr.
  In this age of Political Correctness, a mystery writer has to supply Angst and other personal concerns facing the protagonists.
Spoilers
• Problems with The Three Coffins: Misdirection
• Deconstruction of a Carr Plot: To Wake the Dead
• Locked Room Murders and Other Impossible Crimes: Commentary
Pastiches
• "Death and the Vanishing Goblin", by Wyatt James. This is an attempt to emulate John Dickson Carr, although it is hard to avoid spoiling a desired atmosphere with satirical elements.
Supplements
• Plan of Chatterham Prison from Hag's Nook
• Plan of Castle Skull from the eponymous book
• Plan of Bowstring Castle from The Bowstring Murders, one of his least effective books -- but this diagram should help considerably

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