John Dickson Carr is known as the master of the locked-room mystery the impossible crime. But Carr also wrote short stories, radio plays, essays, introductions, and book reviews. S. T. Joshi has written the first full-length study of Carr s entire work and pays particular attention to this author s [...]

In the shadowy hallway of clockmaker Johannes Carver's house a policeman is found murdered, the arrow-tipped minute hand of an antique clock embedded in his neck. For Dr Gideon Fell this is the only case that has ever really frightened him, and before he can solve it he must find answers to some see[...]

To solve a long-forgotten crime, a professor challenges the devil in this nefariously puzzling, romantic tale from the Golden Age master of mystery fiction An aging scholar of Restoration history, Nicholas Fenton has long dreamed of traveling into the past. He has a date in mind May 10, 1675 as well[...]

Romanen er både en grøsser og en detektivfortelling. Handlingen foregår i Amerika, i det mørke og tradisjonsrike Ny-England, i velstående, typisk amerikansk mellomkrigsmiljø. Samtidig føres vi tilbake til et dystert Frankrike på 1600-tallet med svarte kunster og heksebål.[...]