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First publish date: 1940
Authors: John Dickson Carr
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πŸ“˜ The Westing Game

When eccentric millionaire Samuel W. Westing dies, sixteen heirs race through riddles, blizzards, burglaries and bombs to solve his will and claim a mysterious $10 million inheritance.

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πŸ“˜ The three coffins

When wealthy Professor Charles Grimaud is shot dead in his study, his ex-con brother Pierre is later found murdered on the street, an unseen killer linked to a mysterious stage trick. Dr. Gideon Fell must untangle the clues with London’s church bells to solve the case.

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πŸ“˜ The sleeping sphinx


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πŸ“˜ The Burning Court

A locked‑room murder mystery where the death of Miles Despard is linked to eerie supernatural hints, raising questions about time and impossible intrusions.

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πŸ“˜ The Witch of the Low Tide

A perplexing murder mystery painted by John Dickson Carr, where a strangled victim and a baffling absence of footprints in damp sand force detectives to unravel a mythical witch‑like killer.

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πŸ“˜ Hag's Nook

In the 1933 detective novel "Hag’s Nook," John Dickson Carr introduces his famed sleuth Gideon Fell as a young American, Tad Rampole, falls for Dorothy Starberth and becomes entwined in the Starberth family’s ancestral mystery at the abandoned Chatterham Prison.

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The Judas window by 8938978|John Dickson Carr book cover

πŸ“˜ The Judas window


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πŸ“˜ He who whispers

In post‑war London, detective Gideon Fell and a mysterious woman hear the famed Professor Rigaud recount the baffling murder of Howard Brookes, a case that seems to defy logic and invites fresh investigation.

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πŸ“˜ The hollow man

Professor Charles Grimaud is challenged by a stranger who claims to have risen from his own coffin. When the stranger dies violently during a snowstorm, Dr. Gideon Fell investigates a killer who leaves no footprints.

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πŸ“˜ The dead man's knock

DEATH BEHIND CLOSED DOORS Young and voluptuous Rose Lestrange walked into her bedroom and plunged a razor-sharp dagger through her heart. At least that's what the police said -- it would have been impossible for a killer to pass in and out of her bedroom because the windows and door were securely locked and bolted from the inside! ENTER DR. GIDEON FELL But master detective Dr. Gideon fell was never one to find the impassable impossible. He knew rose Lestrange had been savagely and brutally murdered, and if blackmail was indeed the motive, other lives were surely in danger. It was up to the indomitable Fell to latch onto the locked-room killer before he bolted for freedom -- and lock him away for good!

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The Plague Court murders by 8938978|John Dickson Carr book cover

πŸ“˜ The Plague Court murders


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πŸ“˜ The Black Spectacles

In *The Black Spectacles*, John Dickson Carr presents a Dr. Gideon Fell mystery where a staged show fails to reveal a murder’s details, leading Fell to unravel the truth against impossible eyewitness accounts.

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