John D. Carr Livres

Miles Despard, un vieux garcon de cinquante-six ans, a ete enterre dans un caveau scelle au milieu de sa propriete, en presence de dizaines de temoins, a Crispen, aux portes de Philadelphie. Mais voila que des soupcons pesent sur sa mort. Maladie ou empoisonnement ? Pour couper court aux rumeurs et eviter le scandale, son neveu decide d'exhumer le corps et de pratiquer une autopsie. Le caveau est descelle, le cercueil ouvert et... rien ! Le cadavre a disparu. Peu a peu les langues se delient: la femme du gardien pretend avoir vu, la nuit de la mort de Miles, une femme dans sa chambre, conversant avec lui, puis cette derniere serait sortie de la piece en traversant le mur. Il semble bien que l'irrationnel soit au coeur de l'affaire... Traduit de l'anglais (Etats-Unis) par Maurice Bernard Endrebe

Après une forte pluie, le corps de Frank Dorrance est retrouvé près du centre d'un court de tennis en terre battue - étranglé ! Pourtant, il n'y avait qu'une seule empreinte dans la surface de terre molle - et cette empreinte appartenait à la victime. Malgré six suspects ayant un mobile et une opportunité, les autorités étaient perplexes ; il semblait impossible de prouver que quelqu'un avait pu tuer Frank Dorrance... Entre en scène le Dr. Gideon Fell. C'était "avantage, le meurtrier", mais le célèbre Dr. Gideon Fell ne se laisserait pas facilement avoir. S'il pouvait découvrir comment le meurtre avait été commis, il aurait son tueur... à moins que le meurtrier ne frappe en retour et ne tue le bon docteur en premier. Avant que le point décisif ne soit atteint, le Dr. Fell allait soit capturer un tueur - soit risquer la fin de sa propre carrière illustre !

Voodoo Drums! Dennis's dreams vibrated with their message of death... Suddenly a hand touched his heaving body. He was shocked awake. Beryl West was standing over him. "Bruce has disappeared," she sobbed. Dennis stared at the girl. Her cry echoed in the eerie light of the half-darkened room. An unknown author had written a play about a murderer and sent it to actor Bruce Ransom. Bruce like it, but his friends Beryl West and Dennis Foster thought the ending unreal. To prove that they were wrong, Bruce proceeded to impersonate the killer in real life. Suddenly his part got out of hand. He had rung up the curtain on a scene called Murder!

From the son of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and one of America's greatest mystery writers, John Dickson Carr, comes twelve riveting tales based on incidents or elements of the unsolved cases of Sherlock Holmes. The plots are all new, with painstaking attention to the mood, tone, and detail of the original stories. Here is a fascinating volume of mysteries for new Sherlock fans, as well as for those who have read all the classics and crave more!The Adventure of the Seven Clocks The Adventure of the Gold Hunter The Adventure of the Wax Gamblers The Adventure of the Highgate Miracle The Adventure of the Black Baronet The Adventure of the Sealed Room The Adventure of the Foulkes Rath The Adventure of the Abbas Ruby The Adventure of the Dark Angles The Adventure of the Two Women The Adventure of the Depthford Horror The Adventure of the Red Widow

Is the world better off without Christianity? Author and historian John Dickson provides an honest account of 2,000 years of Christian history, blending narrative with critique of contemporary debates. The Christian Church faces significant image issues, grappling with a legacy that includes the Crusades, the Inquisition, and ongoing racism and abuse within both Catholic and Protestant traditions. Yet, the Church has also experienced moments that resonate with Jesus' teachings, such as the rise of charity and the establishment of hospitals. For defenders of the faith, recognizing both the good and bad in the Church's history is crucial for living in alignment with Christ. For skeptics, this exploration serves as a thought-provoking introduction to the notion that Christianity remains an essential foundation of our civilization. The journey spans from the Sermon on the Mount to modern times, providing contextual accounts of notorious chapters in Christian history while acknowledging their darker aspects. It outlines significant movements within the faith and defends its lesser-known heroes and saints. Ultimately, the examination of the Church alongside the teachings and life of Jesus reveals its successes and failures in striving to imitate Christ.

Four complete Dr. Fell Mysteries by John Dickson Carr.

Avory Hume is found stabbed to death with an arrow - in a study with bolted steel shutters and a heavy door locked from the inside. In the same room James Caplon Answell lies unconscious, his clothes disordered as though from a struggle, his fingerprints on the damning arrow.Here is the unique Carter Dickson "impossible situation" - yet the great, explosive Sir Henry Merrivale gets down to serious sleuthing and at last startles the crowd in the Old Bailey with a reconstruction of the crime along logical, convincing lines.H.M. in his most exciting case - an original, unconventional mystery, with a rich story background and a thrilling trial scene.

Here is another in Carr's entrancing series of historical mysteries. Complete with an exciting and puzzling plot, period romance, and accurate historical detail, Fire, Burn! is a captivating depiction of the early years of the world's first true police force: Sir Robert Peel's "Peelers".

At the edge of the woods by the river stands the tower. Once part of a chateau since burnt down, only the tower remains. The inside is but a shell with a stone staircase climbing spirally up the wall to a flat stone roof with a parapet.On that parapet the body of Howard Brooke lay bleeding. The murderer, when Brooke's back was turned, must have drawn the sword-cane from its sheath and run him through the body. And this must have occurred between ten minutes to four and five minutes past four, when the two children discovered him dying.Yet the evidence showed conclusively that during this time not a living soul came near him.

This 1938 Dr. Gideon Fell British mystery is considered one of the best locked room mysteries of all time.

A collection of nine mysteries, based on original radio plays written during the forties and fifties

Dr. Gideon Fell solves the dagger murder of a frock-coated, false-whiskered man whose corpse is discovered in the great black carriage of the eerie Wade Museum of Oriental Art

Crime author Dick Markham is in love again; his fiancée the mysterious newcomer to the village, Lesley Grant. When Grant accidentally shoots the fortune teller through the side of his tent at the local fair – following a very strange reaction to his predictions – Markham is reluctantly brought into a scheme to expose his betrothed as a suspected serial husband-poisoner.That night the enigmatic fortune teller – and chief accuser – is found dead in an impossible locked-room setup, casting suspicion onto Grant and striking doubt into the heart of her lover. Lured by the scent of the impossible case, Dr Gideon Fell arrives from London to examine the perplexing evidence and match wits with a meticulous killer at large.

Also known by its US title The Problem of the Green Capsule, this classic novel is widely regarded as one of John Dickson Carr's masterpieces and remains among the greatest impossible crime mysteries of all time.

A curse shall befall anyone who takes the bronze lamp out of Egypt, so a seer has said. Lady Helen Loring thinks such tales are sheer poppycock. She takes the lamp back to England, she places it on the mantelpiece at Serven Hall, and she disappears, just as the seer said.

Professor Nicholas Fenton enters a pact with Satan and goes back in time to bawdy, turbulent Restoration London to prevent a murder that is about to take place. But he falls in love with the intended victim and resolves to alter the course of history. "Breathless pace and ingenious plotting."--New York Times. Reissue.

Dr. Gideon Fell, a history professor, agrees to help Scotland Yard investigate the baffling murder of Martin Starberth, who seems to be the victim of a family curse

Professor Charles Grimaud was explaining to some friends the natural causes behind an ancient superstition about men leaving their coffins when a stranger entered and challenged Grimaud's skepticism. The stranger asserted that he had risen from his own coffin and that four walls meant nothing to him. He added, 'My brother can do more... he wants your life and will call on you!' The brother came during a snowstorm, walked through the locked front door, shot Grimaud and vanished. The tragedy brought Dr Gideon Fell into the bizarre mystery of a killer who left no footprints.

A cultivated detective story set aboard an ocean liner. Detective Dr. Fell assists Captain Whistler in solving a case that unfolds on his luxury ship traveling from New York to Southampton. During the voyage, the nephew of a government official is attacked, and a portion of an amateur film he made, featuring his uncle in a compromising situation, is stolen. The film's release could have dire consequences for his uncle's career. Additionally, Lord Sturton's rare jewel, the "Emerald Elephant," goes missing, and his assistant is murdered. As Dr. Fell investigates, he uncovers discrepancies regarding the lord's identity, ultimately revealing the culprit and bringing the case to a successful conclusion.

A man is discovered dead in an unlocked room in the English countryside, shot in the head, with all evidence suggesting a recent visitor as the culprit. The presence of a tarot card, The Eight of Swords, adds an intriguing layer to the mystery, hinting at themes of justice and fate. This seemingly straightforward crime scene invites deeper investigation, as the characters unravel the true story behind the murder and the significance of the clue left by the killer.

Set in the eerie Plague Court, a once-grand estate haunted by the ghost of Louis Playge, the story unfolds as a new owner seeks to rid the property of its supernatural presence. However, the murder of a medium hired for this purpose raises chilling questions among the guests. With the crime occurring in a locked hut and an untouched circle of mud surrounding the scene, paranoia escalates as they grapple with the possibility of a cunning murderer among them, blurring the lines between the supernatural and human malice.

Entreated by the Belgian financier D'Aunay to investigate the gruesome and grimly theatrical death of actor Myron Alison, the Inspector Bencolin and his accomplice Jeff Marle find themselves at the imposing hilltop fortress Schloss Schadel, in which a killer lurks amongst a small group of suspects.

An early gem from one of the great writers of the classic crime genre, in which Inspector Bencolin must tread the streets of a foggy London in search of a fictional bogeyman, Jack Ketch, who appears to be on a murder spree.

In this baffling whodunnit from the master of the locked-room mystery, a man falls dead in a guarded room, and Sir Henry Merrivale searches for a devilishly-clever killer. They say that Lord Mantling’s mansion is haunted — at least, one room of it is. Known as the Red Widow’s Chamber, the now-sealed quarters once housed the wife of a guillotine operator in the French Revolution, and, since her passing, have been host to a century of unsolved horrors, including the death of a man in 1802, the death of a child in 1895, and a number of mysterious mortalities in the years in between. Now, in 1935, eight men and women join at the manor for a sinister experiment to determine the truth behind the haunting once and for all: they each draw a card, and whoever pulls the Ace of Spades must spend a night in that terrifying room. But the challenge turns fatal when the man selected for the task is found poisoned the next morning when the doors are opened. The locked room was guarded all night, so nobody could have entered or escaped; what’s more, the deadly toxin could only have entered through a break in the skin, but no wounds were discovered on the body. Is this evidence, at last, of a nefarious spirit at work, or of a diabolical and ingenious killer? Only Sir Henry Merrivale, called in to take note of the night’s proceedings, will be able to examine the clues and deduce the truth.

Was the madwoman dead or alive. The two beautiful Devereaux girls came from an old and distinguished family -- with an old and unfortunate streak of madness in it. Now Cecilia was still alive and Margot was dead . . . murdered. And it was up to Dr. Gideon Fell to discover as quickly as possible which of them was (or had been) a sexually twisted, dangerously cunning madwoman.

Beside the dead body of Sir Maurice Lawes are the shattered fragments of a snuff-box that once belonged to Napoleon. These fragments tell a tale, or rather two tales, one true and one false. Now, an English expert in criminology forces the evidence to tell the truth about what happened and to point out the real murderer. Reissue.

Wealthy young Christopher Kent has undertaken a that he cannot work his way from South Africa to England without recourse to his own bank account. With less than twenty-four hours left before he can reveal himself and win the bet, Kent arrives at a London hotel he knows, hoping to scam a meal--only to find himself trapped in a room with a half open trunk and a dead woman's body.

Ve třech detektivních povídkách z londýnského prostředí může čtenář hledat motivy a krajní meze, které člověka doženou až k vraždě. V prvním detektivním příběhu pátráme po vrahovi snoubence dcery neoblomného soudce Iretona, v druhé detektivní povídce se zamýšlíme nad nenávistí odborníků, z nichž každý obhajuje svou pravdu a ve třetím detektivním příběhu pátráme po vrahovi pracovníka jednoho londýnského klenotnického oddělení. Tento svazek obsahuje díla: Prapodivný případ Případ ustavičných sebevražd Svědkem je Měsíc

Dva detektivní příběhy, z nichž první se odehrává v předválečné Francii a druhý ve Skotsku ve válečných letech. „Císařova tabatěrka“ se odehrává v předválečné Francii. Policejní prefekt Goron vyšetřuje vraždu sira M. Lawese, sběratele starožitných tretek. Nebýt toho, že si k vyšetřování pozval svého přítele doktoraKinrosse, psychologa, byla by z vraždy usvědčena nevinná osoba. „Případ ustavičných sebevražd“ se odehrává ve Skotsku ve válečných letech. Zde je úkolem vyšetřovatele zjistit, zda pan Angus Campbell spáchal sebevraždu skokem ze zámecké věže, či zda ho někdo shodil. Případem je pověřen doktor Fell. V průběhu vyšetřování dochází k dalšímu pádu z věže a k jedné sebevraždě oběšením…

In een spookhuis op het Engelse platteland worden tijdens een feestje een raadselachtige moord en een aanslag op één van de gasten gepleegd

«¿Cree usted –había dicho sin preámbulo–, que una habitación puede matar?». Esta pregunta, viniendo de sir George Anstruther, hombre consagrado a la ciencia y director del Museo Británico, le parece al doctor Tairlaine el preludio de un razonamiento filosófico. Pero luego, ya metido en la aventura, sabe de la existencia de un testamento que prohíbe abrir una estancia, cerrada desde la muerte de un antepasado, a riesgo de perder la herencia.

V osamělé a opuštěné vile na okraji Paříže je nalezeno mrtvé tělo známé kurtizány. Všechny důkazy svědčí o tom, že ji zabil její bývalý milenec, ale postupně se objevují další podezřelí. Případ se komplikuje čtyřmi falešnými vražednými zbraněmi a perfektními alibi podezíraných osob. Henri Bencolin, podivínský detektiv ve výslužbě, se nenechá zmást, a nakonec svým ostrovtipem a důkladností odhalí vraha a lstí rozbourá jeho dokonalé alibi...

Eine Sammlung von Werken u. a. von Mary Roberts Rinehart, John Dickson Carr und Leslie Thomas, illustriert mit Vignetten und umfasst 392 Seiten.

Mehrere Mitglieder der schottischen Campbell-Familie stürzen sich vom Turm ihrer Burg zu Tode. Erst Gedeon Fell - Gelehrter von Beruf, Detektiv aus Neigung - entschlüsselt die mysteriöse Selstmord-Serie mit verblüffender Logik.

Vier bekannte Londoner Personlichkeiten treffen sich zu nachtlicher Stunde: 3 findet man mit gefahrlichen Vergiftungen, den Gastgeber jedoch erstochen in der Wohnung liegen. Klassischer Kriminalroman von 1938

Je po válce a v Beltringeově restauraci se má znovu setkat Klub vražd – spolek amatérských detektivů, kteří společně diskutují nad známými případy nevysvětlených zločinů. A na tomto setkání poprvé slyší mladý Miles Hammond o Fay Setonové, dívce zapletené do vraždy, ke které před válkou došlo na vrcholku staré polorozbořené věže ve Francii. Jejich cesty se protnou v Greywoodu, v domě uprostřed lesů New Forrest. Milese před tou ženou všichni varují, ale on nesmyslným báchorkám odmítne uvěřit. A pak – po půlnoci – někdo v domě vystřelí. Jedna z žen v pokoji nad schody je ve stavu, který hraničí se smrtí. Co nebo koho mohla vidět za oknem, šest metrů nad zemí? A kdo šeptal v jejím pokoji chvíli předtím? To je jen jeden z problémů, se kterými se potýká detektiv Dr. Fell. Jak spolu souvisí lahvička parfému, meč schovaný v holi a taška, která zmizela? Všechny důkazy jsou čtenáři poctivě předkládány a téměř každý rozhovor a vyprávění v knize v sobě skrývají klíč k řešení, který je ovšem nutné správně interpretovat. John Dickson Carr, mistr klasické detektivky, zvlášť jejího specifického žánru zvaného záhada zamčeného pokoje, je autorem knihy, kterou držíte v ruce. Ten, kdo šeptá potěší každého čtenáře klasické detektivky zlaté éry a nadchne všechny fanoušky J. D. Carra a jeho detektiva Dr. Gideona Fella.

Questa antologia contiene: Festa di Natale di Rex Stout; Fai i tuoi acquisti natalizi in anticipo di Robert Somerlott; La collana di perle di Dorothy L. Sayers; Padre Crumlish festeggia il Natale di Alice Scanlan Reach; Il mascherata di Natale di S. S. Rafferty; La bambola del Delfino di Ellery Queen; Con cura dal camino di Nick O'Donohoe; Il problema del campanile di Natale di Edward D. Hoch; Morte la vigilia di Natale di Stanley Ellin; L'avventura degli unici Dickensiani di August Derleth; Il cappuccio del cieco di John Dickson Carr; e Il tredicesimo giorno di Natale di Isaac Asimov.

Crime On the Coast bringt Mord und Intrigen in einen lebhaften Badeort in diesem klassischen Kriminalroman mit einer seltsamen Wendung, einem irrtümlichen Opfer und einer schwer fassbaren Heldin.

London, Anfang der Dreißiger Jahre: Der Krimischriftsteller Kent hat gewettet, dass er sich ohne einen Cent von Südafrika bis zum Royal Scarlet Hotel am Picadilly Circus durchschlagen kann. Er trifft sogar einen Tag zu früh dort ein - und stirbt fast vor Hunger. Was kann schon passieren, wenn er sich unter Angabe einer falschen Zimmernummer ein Frühstück erschleicht? Einiges: In >seinem