The crooked hinge by Carr, John Dickson, Publication date Topics Fell, Gideon (Fictitious character), Private investigators Publisher [San Diego]: University Extension, University of California, San Diego Collection John Dickson Carr, first off, was an American. He just wrote British:) He also wrote under at least two. · John Dickson Carr () wrote dozens of short stories, a non-fiction book, and seventy-three novels (mostly mysteries, thrillers and historicals), and while not every one is completely brilliant like The Crooked Hinge is (no writer can be that consistent!), enough are, and those accomplishments will keep readers eagerly turning pages far. John Dickson Carr's popular mystery, The Crooked Hinge (), is often found on lists of the greatest classics of detective fiction. Nonetheless, the solution is bizarre, Byzantine, and implausible to the extreme - and thus a rather typical Carr explanation to an impossible murder.
The crooked hinge by Carr, John Dickson, Publication date Topics Fell, Gideon (Fictitious character), Private investigators Publisher [San Diego]: University Extension, University of California, San Diego Collection John Dickson Carr, first off, was an American. He just wrote British:) He also wrote under at least two. John Dickson Carr's popular mystery, The Crooked Hinge (), is often found on lists of the greatest classics of detective fiction. Nonetheless, the solution is bizarre, Byzantine, and implausible to the extreme - and thus a rather typical Carr explanation to an impossible murder. The Crooked Hinge John Dickson Carr. Penzler, $ (p) ISBN More By and About This Author. OTHER BOOKS. The Eight of Swords: A Dr. Gideon Fell Mystery; The Plague Court.
The Crooked Hinge is the eighth novel featuring Carr's popular investigator, the corpulent lexicographer, Dr. Gideon Fell. The setting is the manor Farnleigh Close near Mallingford village in Kent. The year is or The baronet, Sir John Farnleigh, is accused of being an impostor, a masquerader, and a fraud. Octo. . / JJ. The heart of John Dickson Carr’s The Crooked Hinge – previously voted the fourth-best impossible crime of all time – is this: a man standing alone at the edge of a pond surrounded by sand has his throat slit, and the two witnesses who had him in their sight both swear no-one was anywhere near him at the time. It is, of course, impossible. The Crooked Hinge by John Dickson Carr, Charles Todd (Introduction) | Editorial Reviews. Paperback $ Hardcover. $
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