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In una Parigi pittoresca e spaventosa, due giovani donne vengono trovate pugnalate in circostanze insolite: la prima galleggia senza vita nella Senna dopo essere entrata nella Camera degli Orrori del museo delle cere Augustin, la seconda viene rinvenuta morta tra le braccia del “Satiro della Senna”, una statua dello stesso museo. Il giudice istruttore Henri Bencolin, un esperto di crimini “impossibili” dall’asp...

Carr considered this novel one of his best works, and it is easy to see why when experiencing its ingenious plot delivered with an astounding pace and masterfully drawn characters including none other than the great detective Dr. Gideon Fell.

Also known by its US title The Problem of the Green Capsule, this classic novel is widely regarded as one of John Dickson Carr's masterpieces and remains among the greatest impossible crime mysteries of all time.

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With a number of strange items making up the physical evidence Dr Gideon Fell, himself an old friend of Ireton's, is summoned to help with the deceptively simple - yet increasingly complex - investigation.

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.

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We are thrilled to welcome John Dickson Carr into the Crime Classics series with his first novel, a brooding locked room mystery in the gathering dusk of the French capital featuring Inspector Bencolin. Also includes the short story 'The Shadow of the Goat'.

John Dickson Carr's work under the Carter Dickson pseudonym continued to demonstrate deft mastery of the locked-room genre, with "She Died A Lady" initially published in 1943.

The first of the Gideon Fell mysteries, originally published in 1933. Each male heir in the Starberth family must spend his twenty-fifth birthday at the abandoned prison the family governed. A mysterious death echoing events from previous generations follows. Set to enthral fans of classic mystery.

First published in 1941, this is a seamless blend of detection, inventive plotting and screwball comedy.

A classic tale combining hints of the supernatural and an 'impossible' murder.The death of Miles Despard looks simple enough. But then how does the housekeeper see a woman walk through a wall? And how would someone walk through a door that had been bricked up two hundred years ago? To all intents and purposes, it looks as if someone has come from the past to commit the murder, but could that really be the case? Surely not...

On his return to Geneva, Brian Innes must meet Audrey Page and find a way to prevent her from joining the strangely temperamental group of people gathered around film star Eve Eden at the Villa Rosalind. With characteristic stubbornness, if not trusting naivety, she refuses to be detained and is immediately encircled by terror, while the jaws of a murder trap swing closed.Fortunately, Dr Gideon Fell is on hand, and when the murderer strikes wi...

A Dr Gideon Fell mystery from Golden Age author John Dickson CarrIn the quaint English village of Sodbury Cross, pretty Marjorie Wills is suspected of poisoning chocolates in the local confectionary shop. Her uncle, the wealthy Marcus Chesney, believes eyewitnesses are unreliable. To prove his point, he sets up a clever test in front of three witnesses and a camera. They are asked to watch a staged series of events, during which a masked man e...

A Sir Henry Merrivale mysteryNo one expected a clergyman's daughter from East Roystead to author a scandalous bestseller, but when Monica Stanton published Desire she quickly got hired at Albion Films. Expecting to adapt her own work, she is instead assigned to help scriptwriter William Cartwright adapt his latest detective novel. Almost immediately, a series of mysterious attempts on her life begin, and the flamboyant Sir Henry Merrivale is c...

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