Dr. Gideon Fell Series by John Dickson Carr
Dr. Gideon Fell #2
The Mad Hatter Mystery dgf-2
John Dickson Carr
Hats are being stolen throughout London in this bizarre case of theft and murder featuring the unflappable Dr. Gideon Fell.
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Dr. Gideon Fell #3
The Eight of Swords dgf-3
John Dickson Carr
Dr. Fell, detective extraordinary, is back again, more amusing and omniscient than ever. In The Eight of Swords he is faced with the sort of problem in which his acute and devious mind delights. When a gay spirit took to playing strange pranks in the haunted bedroom at the Grange and the Bishop was seen sliding down the banisters, Scotland Yard was more amused than disturbed. But when Depping, the harmless old scholar and connoisseur of wines and foods, was found murdered in his study, they sent Dr. Fell down to investigate. As soon as Dr. Fell saw the card representing the eight of swords, the partially eaten dinner on the tray, and the button-hook which had been used to blow the fuses, he knew the murderer. But there was a great deal to be explained before he could prove it, and his solution will remain a classic example of deductive reasoning combined with thrilling plot. The book is also filled with a subtle type of humor that makes it something different in the way of detective novels.
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Dr. Gideon Fell #4
The Blind Barber dgf-4
John Dickson Carr
The bunk’s mattress was soaked wit blood. The old-fashioned razor was folded shut. But it had been recently used. It was smeared with blood. A voice broke the terrible stillness in the stateroom: “The Blind Barber Has Been Here Tonight!” On an Atlantic crossing of the good ship Queen Victoria, a vicious killer is loose, and four high-living characters are hellbent to pin him down. Dr. Gideon Fell soon finds himself up to his chins in misadventure as he wades into a comedy of terrors that boasts a reel of compromising film, an emerald elephant, and a lethal razor for props, murder as the evils deed, and unmitigated mayhem as the comedy relief.
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Dr. Gideon Fell #15
Till Death Do Us Part dgf-15
John Dickson Carr
Six months after she arrived in Six Ashes, half the men were in love with beautiful Lesley Grant--and one of them was going to marry her--until Sir Harvey Gilman, London murder expert told him: "That lovely young girl is forty-one years old. She poisoned two husbands and one lover. And no one knows how." A few hours later Sir Harvey was dead--poisoned--in a sealed room.
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Dr. Gideon Fell #16
He Who Whispers dgf-16
John Dickson Carr
A Dr Gideon Fell mystery and classic of the locked-room genre Outside the little French city of Chartres, industrialist Howard Brookes is found dying on the parapet of an old stone tower. Evidence shows that it was impossible for anyone to have entered at the time of the murder, however someone must have, for the victim was discovered stabbed in the back. Who could have done it? And where did they go? When no one is convicted, the mystery remains unsolved for years until a series of coincidences brings things to a head in post-war England, where amateur sleuth Dr. Gideon Fell is on the scene to work out what really happened.
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Dr. Gideon Fell #17
The Sleeping Sphinx dgf-17
John Dickson Carr
VIOLENCE PASSION TERROR There was a streak of madness in the ancient and honorable Devereux family. No one, not even the family doctor, could tell when, or in whom, it might make its ugly appearance. Their own grandmother said of the two beautiful Devereux girls: "One of my granddaughters is all right But I've been worried about the other since she was a little child." Now one of the girls was dead, murdered. And no one knew which of the sisters—the dead Margot, or the lovely, living Celia— was a cunning, sexually deranged, exceedingly dangerous madwoman. ♦THE SLEEPING SPHINX-JOHN DICKSON CARR AT HIS BEST!"
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