Papa La-Bas
About the Author:
John Dickson Carr
John Dickson Carr, who also wrote under the pen names of Carter Dickson and Roger Fairbairn, is regarded as the Master of Locked Room Mysteries that were most popular during the 30's. His mysteries were complex puzzlers resolved by his detectives whose explanations were most implausible. Carr's Dr. Gideon Fell and "Dickson's" Sir Henry Merrivale were both quite heavy, upper class, middle-aged and eccentric. They differed in that Fell used canes to walk, and Merrivale was quite physically active. Dr. Fell was modeled after author G. K. Chesterton and Sir Merrivale clearly modeled after Churchill.
It Walks by Night was Carr's first published novel, It Walks by Night, featured French detective Henri Bencolin. It was followed by Castle Skull, The Lost Gallows, The Waxworks Murder, and after other successful novels, The Four False Weapons.
Carr's The Three Coffins (also known as The Hollow Man) featured Dr. Fell was chosen as the best locked-room mystery of all time by a panel of mystery writers. The Man with a Cloak was made into a movie that received a Best Movie of the Year nomination in 1951.
John Dickson Carr was born in Uniontown, PA in 1906. He died February 27, 1977.
Other Books By John Dickson Carr:
|
|
|
