Dr. Gideon Fell mysteries
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1) Hag's Nook
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Dr. Gideon Fell mysteries volume 1
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The Starberths die of broken necks' goes the legend in the village of Chatterham . . .'
The Starberth family governed the now-abandoned Chatterham prison for many years, and each male heir must spend the night of his twenty-fifth birthday there, alone, overlooking the hanging site of Hag's Nook.
Meanwhile, after a chance encounter on a railway platform, Dorothy Starberth and young American graduate Tad Rampole fall in love. Rampole is here in rural...
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A corpse in a top hat leads Dr. Gideon Fell to a killer with a sick sense of humor in this mystery by the celebrated author of Hag's Nook.
At the hand of an outrageous prankster, top hats are going missing all over London, snatched from the heads of some of the city's most powerful people―but is the hat thief the same as the person responsible for stealing a lost story by Edgar Allan Poe, the manuscript of which has just disappeared from the...
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The eight of swords , Dr. Gideon Fell mysteries volume 3
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Dr. Gideon Fell mysteries volume 4
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Brilliant detective Dr. Gideon Fell embarks on an adventure of murder and mayhem on the high seas in Golden Age mystery master John Dickson Carr's suspenseful tale A vicious killer is loose aboard the majestic liner Queen Victoria and four people are determined to track him down. But they are as wholly unprepared for the heavy weather and high seas as for crime-solving and its strange circumstances-a blood-soaked stateroom, a lethally sharp razor,...
5) Death-Watch
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Dr. Gideon Fell mysteries volume 5
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John Dickson Carr, a master of the Golden Age British-style mystery novel, presents Dr. Gideon Fell's most chilling case, in which a clock-obsessed killer terrorizes London A clockmaker is puzzled by the theft of the hands of a monumental new timepiece he is preparing for a member of the nobility. That night, one of the stolen hands is found buried between a policeman's shoulder blades, stopping his clock for all time. The crime is just peculiar...
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The three coffins , Dr. Gideon Fell mysteries volume 6
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The Arabian nights murder , Dr. Gideon Fell mysteries volume 7
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Dr. Gideon Fell mysteries volume 8
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Hailed by Agatha Christie as "the king of the art of misdirection," John Dickson Carr presents a thrilling murder mystery that has the redoubtable Dr. Gideon Fell tracing clues from London to Sussex to South Africa. Mystery novelist Christopher Kent accepts a friend's outlandish bet and sets out to travel from Johannesburg to London with nothing but the cash in his wallet and the clothes on his back. He arrives with twenty-four hours to spare, his...
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"Banished from the idyllic English countryside he once called home and en route to live with his cousin in America, Sir John Farnleigh, black sheep of the wealthy Farnleigh clan, nearly perished in the sinking of the Titanic. Though he survived the catastrophe, his ties with his family did not, and he never returned to England--not even for the funerals of his mother, his father, or, most recently, his older brother Dudley. Now, nearly twenty-five...
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The problem of the green capsule: being: the psychologists' murder case , Dr. Gideon Fell mysteries volume 10
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"[A] dead man is found strangled in the middle of a clay tennis court, just after a storm. In the damp dirt, there is one set of footsteps—his own—leading back to the grass; the court is otherwise untouched. There are no trees above from which the body may have fallen and no other visible means by which it may have been transported to its final resting place. Before determining the perpetrator of the strangulation, the local authorities are first...
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Dr. Gideon Fell mysteries volume 12
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Famed crime solver Dr. Gideon Fell attends a housewarming party in the English countryside, but a ghost spoils the fun in Golden Age mystery master John Dickson Carr's stylish, baffling mystery novel. The house is called Longwood, and its history is wet with blood. It is closed up for good in 1920, when a massive chandelier falls, crushing an eighty-year-old butler. Oddly enough, the old chandelier was sturdy, and there was no way it could have fallen...
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The case of the constant suicides , Dr. Gideon Fell mysteries volume 13
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Death turns the tables , Dr. Gideon Fell mysteries volume 14
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"First published in 1944, Till Death Do Us Part remains a pacey and deeply satisfying impossible crime story, championed by Carr connoisseurs as one of the very best examples of his mystery writing talents. This edition includes an introduction by CWA Diamond Dagger Award-winning author Martin Edwards. Crime author Dick Markham is in love again; his fiancée, the mysterious newcomer to the village, Lesley Grant. When Grant accidentally shoots the...
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He who whispers , Dr. Gideon Fell mysteries volume 16
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The sleeping sphinx: a Doctor Fell detective story , Dr. Gideon Fell mysteries volume 17
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Below suspicion , Dr. Gideon Fell mysteries volume 18
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The dead man's knock , Dr. Gideon Fell mysteries volume 19
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Dr. Gideon Fell mysteries volume 20
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The master of the Golden Age British-style detective novel presents his redoubtable sleuth Dr. Gideon Fell in a baffling murder mystery set in the Swiss Alps Young Audrey Page has been warned against joining the aging film star Eve Eden and her temperamental friends at a Swiss chalet. Trustingly, she goes anyway and finds herself encircled by terror when a murderer strikes. With its eerie similarities to a crime that dates back to World War II, the...
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The house at Satan's Elbow , Dr. Gideon Fell mysteries volume 21
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Panic in box C , Dr. Gideon Fell mysteries volume 22
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Dark of the moon , Dr. Gideon Fell mysteries volume 23
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Fell and foul play
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