John Dickson Carr
Birth date: November 30, 1906
Died: February 27, 1977
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This book had such a promising start but once the main plot event happened and the police investigation gets under way, the story becomes ridiculously convoluted and stops making sense. It was almost as if Carr had a really novel idea and then suddenly balked at executing it. Instead of a well-thou...
I've been wanting to read The Hollow Man (aka The Three Coffins) for ages, but I've been stubbornly waiting until I found an older edition (mission: impossible), rather than buying a spiffy new reprint. But when Otto Penzler's American Mystery Classics released this spiffy new reprint with it's cla...
The Case of The Constant Suicides is a fun golden age mystery, set in the wonderful Scottish Highlands, with some fun and quirky characters and some weird scenes involving a fair amount of whisky. The one thing this book lacks though is a decent mystery. Let me rephrase that. The mystery is a dece...
Even though I was having eye problems last night, I stupidly stayed up to finish this book. It was so good. So many twists and turns and a perfect locked room murder mystery. It reminded me a bit of "The Tokyo Zodiac Murders" as well as "The Murder at the Vicarage" that you have something that is su...
Seriously, this is the book where John Dickson Carr, the master of locked room mysteries, pulls out all the stops. And he tells us as much right from the start: "To the murder of Professor Grimaud, and later the equally incredible crime in Cagliostro Street, many fantastic tems could be applied --...
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