John Dickson Carr
Sign in to saveAlso known as Carr Dickson, Carter Dickson, Roger Fairbairn
American writer (1906–1977)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 30 November 1906
- Died
- 27 February 1977
- Works
- 171
Top works
- The Arabian nights murder
- The skeleton in the clock
- The Bowstring murders
- מסתרי הקופסה הקיסרית
- הרצח בחדר האמבטיה
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John Dickson Carr (November 30, 1906–February 27, 1977) was an American author of detective stories, who also published under the pen names Carter Dickson, Carr Dickson and Roger Fairbairn. Many of his novels had English settings, his best-known detective characters were English, and he is sometimes loosely grouped among "British-style" mystery writers. He is generally regarded as one of the greatest writers of so-called "Golden Age" mysteries, complex, plot-driven stories in which the puzzle i
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1906-11-30 ) November 30, 1906, Uniontown, Pennsylvania , United States
- Died
- February 28, 1977 (1977-02-28) (aged 70), Greenville, South Carolina , United States
- Resting place
- Springwood Cemetery , Greenville
- Occupation
- Novelist
- Alma mater
- Haverford College
- Genre
- Detective novel , murder mystery
- Literary movement
- Golden Age of Detective Fiction
- Notable works
- The Hollow Man , The Burning Court
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Works in European collections
1 object attributed to John Dickson Carr, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
John Dickson Carr (November 30, 1906 – February 27, 1977) was an American author of detective stories, who also published using the pseudonyms Carter Dickson, Carr Dickson, and Roger Fairbairn.
He lived in England for a number of years, and is often grouped among "British-style" mystery writers. Most (though not all) of his novels had English settings, especially country villages and estates, and English characters. His two best-known fictional detectives, Gideon Fell and Sir Henry Merrivale, were both English. Gideon Fell first appeared in the novel Hag's Nook (1933), and Sir Henry Merrivale first appeared in the novel The Plague Court Murders (1934).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “John Dickson Carr” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.