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Name: John Dickson Carr
Author: Douglas G. Greene

📘 John Dickson Carr by Douglas G. Greene

Douglas G. Greene’s scholarship delivers the definitive portrait of John Dickson Carr, the American author whose clever locked‑room puzzles and creation of iconic sleuths such as Sir Henry Merrivale and Dr. Gideon Fell earned him lasting fame. Tracing Carr’s upbringing in small‑town Pennsylvania through his prolific output of novels, short stories and radio plays, the book examines his instinct for impossible crimes and the techniques he refined over more than seventy works. It also situates his career within the broader mystery genre of the mid‑twentieth century, highlighting his friendships with literary luminaries Dorothy L. Sayers, Ellery Queen, Agatha Christie and others, and detailing his dual influence on American and British crime writing.

First publish date: 1995

Genre: Biography & Autobiography/Biography

Authors: Douglas G. Greene

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