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It Walks By Night, first published in 1930, is the first detective novel by John Dickson Carr. [1] It introduced Carr's series detective Henri Bencolin. [citation needed] This novel is a mystery of the type known as a locked-room mystery. [1] It has been compared to "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" by Edgar Allan Poe. [2]
Even in the earliest books the bald, bespectacled, and scowling H.M. is clearly a Churchillian figure and in the later novels this similarity is somewhat more consciously evoked. Many of the Merrivale novels, written using the Carter Dickson byline, rank with Carr's best work, including the much-praised The Judas Window (1938).
Dr. Gideon Fell: The Proverbial Murder: first published in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine in July 1943, as "The Proverbial Murderer".; The Locked Room: first published in Strand Magazine in July 1940.
Sir Henry Merrivale is a fictional amateur detective created by "Carter Dickson", a pen name of John Dickson Carr (1906–1977). Also known as "the Old Man," by his initials "H. M." (a pun on "His Majesty"), or "the Maestro", Merrivale appears in 22 of Carr's locked-room mysteries and "impossible crime" novels of the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, [1] as well as in two short stories.
The comings and goings at the villa that night are the subject of much investigation. It is not until Bencolin is invited to take a hand at the Corpses' Club to play a 17th-century game of chance, Basset , that has never been played by any living person, that he resolves the contradictions and solves the crimes.
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The Man Who Could Not Shudder, first published in 1940, is a detective story by American writer John Dickson Carr featuring his series detective Gideon Fell.It is mystery novel of the locked room mystery type, more properly a subset of the locked room mystery called an "impossible crime" story.
according to Jacques Barzun and Wendell Hertig Taylor, the novel is:"One of the author's most straightforward stories. The action ... consists in finding out who murdered whom for a military secret -- except that the motive takes an unexpected turn. The several characters are well differentiated and suspicion fairly distributed.