The Four False Weapons (1948), 1961 Pan paperback edition. 218 pages

John Dickson Carr (November 30, 1906–February 27, 1977) was a prolific American author of detective stories who also published under the pen names Carter Dickson, Carr Dickson, and Roger Fairbairn. He is generally regarded as one of the greatest writers of so-called "Golden Age" mysteries, complex, plot-driven stories in which the puzzle is paramount. Most of his many novels and short stories feature the elucidation, by an eccentric detective, of apparently impossible, and seemingly supernatural, crimes. He was influenced in this regard by the works of Gaston Leroux and by the Father Brown stories of G. K. Chesterton. Carr modeled his major detective, the fat and genial lexicographer Dr. Gideon Fell, on Chesterton. Image File history File links Four_false_weapons. ... Image File history File links Four_false_weapons. ... is the 334th day of the year (335th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1906 (MCMVI) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... is the 58th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Also: 1977 (album) by Ash. ... A pen name or nom de plume is a pseudonym adopted by an author. ... A whodunit or whodunnit (for Who done it? and sometimes referred to as a Golden Age Mystery novel) is a complex, plot-driven variety of the detective story in which the puzzle is paramount. ... A novel (from French nouvelle Italian novella, new) is an extended, generally fictional narrative, typically in prose. ... This article is in need of attention. ... Look up Supernatural in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Gaston Leroux. ... Father Brown is a fictional detective created by English novelist G. K. Chesterton and who stars in five volumes of in total 48 short stories, later compiled in five books. ... Gilbert Keith Chesterton (May 29, 1874–June 14, 1936) was an influential English writer of the early 20th century. ... Doctor Gideon Fell is a fictional detective created by John Dickson Carr. ...

Life and Works

Carr was born in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, the son of Julia M. Kisinger and Wooda Nicholas Carr, a Pennsylvania lawyer who served a term in Congress as a Democrat. He attended The Hill School, where he was a mediocre student preoccupied with fledgling attempts at writing mystery stories. While studying abroad he married an Englishwoman, Clarice Cleaves, in 1931 and settled in England. They raised three children there before moving to the United States in 1948. Most of his books written through the mid-1950s are set in England or in Europe, and at one point there was speculation that "Carr" was a pen name used by the famous English humorist P. G. Wodehouse. Uniontown is a city in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, 50 miles (80 km) south by east of Pittsburgh. ... The United States House of Representatives (or simply the House) is one of the two chambers of the United States Congress; the other is the Senate. ... Federal courts Supreme Court Circuit Courts of Appeal District Courts Elections Presidential elections Midterm elections Political Parties Democratic Republican Third parties State & Local government Governors Legislatures (List) State Courts Local Government Other countries Atlas  Politics Portal      Further information: Politics of the United States#Organization of American political parties The Democratic... The Hill School (The Hill) is an American preparatory boarding school for boys and girls in grades nine through twelve. ... Year 1931 (MCMXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1931 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Motto (French) God and my right Anthem No official anthem - the United Kingdom anthem God Save the Queen is commonly used England() – on the European continent() – in the United Kingdom() Capital (and largest city) London (de facto) Official languages English (de facto)1 Government Constitutional monarchy  -  Monarch Queen Elizabeth II... Year 1948 (MCMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the 1948 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... This does not cite any references or sources. ... World map showing the location of Europe. ... Pelham Grenville Wodehouse KBE (October 15, 1881 – February 14, 1975) (IPA: ) was an English comic writer who has enjoyed enormous popular success for more than seventy years. ...

Carr was a master of the locked room mystery, in which a detective solves apparently impossible crimes. Examples of such crimes are murder inside a locked and sealed room, or the discovery of a dead body (strangled or knifed at close quarters) surrounded by snow or wet sand in which no footprints but the victim's are visible. The Dr. Fell mystery The Three Coffins (also known as The Hollow Man) (1935), usually considered Carr's masterpiece, features crimes that are variations on both of these scenarios and that has a notable discourse by Dr. Fell on the nature of impossible crimes. It was selected as the best locked-room mystery of all time by a panel of mystery writers and Dr. Fell's discourse is sometimes printed as a stand-alone essay. A locked room mystery is a sub-genre of detective fiction wherein a murder or other crime is apparently committed under impossible circumstances: no one could have entered or left the scene of the crime, and the death involved could not have been a suicide. ... The Hollow Man (written in 1935) is a famous locked room mystery novel by John Dickson Carr (1906 - 1977). ...

Many of the Fell novels feature two or more different impossible crimes, including He Who Whispers (1946) and The Case of the Constant Suicides (1941). The novel The Crooked Hinge (1938) weaves a seemingly impossible throat-slashing, witchcraft, an eerie automaton modelled on Johann Maelzel's chess player, and a case similar to that of the Tichborne claimant into what is often cited as one of the greatest classics of detective fiction. But even Carr's biographer, Douglas G. Greene (John Dickson Carr: The Man Who Explained Miracles), notes that the explanation, like many of Carr's in other books, seriously stretches plausibility and the reader's credulity. He Who Whispers is a novel (1946) by detective novelist John Dickson Carr. ... See also: 1945 in literature, other events of 1946, 1947 in literature, list of years in literature. ... The Case of the Constant Suicides, first published in 1941, is a detective story by John Dickson Carr. ... See also: 1940 in literature, other events of 1941, 1942 in literature, list of years in literature. ... The Crooked Hinge is a novel (1938) by detective novelist John Dickson Carr, often counted among the greatest mysteries of the so-called Golden Age. ... See also: 1937 in literature, other events of 1938, 1939 in literature, list of years in literature. ... Johann Nepomuk Mälzel (August 15, 1772 - July 21, 1838) was an inventor, engineer, and showman, best known for manufacturing a metronome and several music automatons, and displaying a fraudulent chess machine. ... Tichborne Claimant was the 19th century case of Arthur Orton (1834-1898), an impostor who claimed to be missing heir Sir Roger Tichborne (1829-1854). ...

Besides Dr. Fell, Carr mysteries feature three other series detectives: Sir Henry Merrivale (H.M.), Henri Bencolin, and Colonel March. Many of the Merrivale novels, written under the Carter Dickson byline, rank with Carr's best work, including the highly praised The Judas Window (1938). A few of his works do not feature a series detective. Sir Henry Merrivale is a fictional detective created by Carter Dickson, the alter ego of John Dickson Carr. ... Henri Bencolin is a fictional detective created by John Dickson Carr. ... Colonel March is a fictional detective created by John Dickson Carr. ... The Judas Window is a famous locked room mystery novel by the American writer John Dickson Carr (1906-1977), writing under the name of Carter Dickson, published in 1938. ...

The most famous Carr novel not to feature a series detective, The Burning Court (1937), involves witchcraft, poisoning, and a body that disappears from a sealed crypt in suburban Philadelphia; it was the basis for the French film La Chambre ardente (1962). The book is notable for an apparently supernatural ending that contradicts an earlier, rational explanation of the mysterious events. The Burning Court is a famous locked room mystery by John Dickson Carr. ... See also: 1936 in literature, other events of 1937, 1938 in literature, list of years in literature. ... // Events Dr. No launches the James Bond film series, the longest-running motion picture franchise of all time, running more than 40 years. ...

Carr also wrote many radio scripts, particularly for the BBC, and some screenplays. His 1943 half-hour radio play Cabin B-13 was expanded into a series on CBS in 1948-49 for which Carr wrote all 25 scripts, basing some on earlier works or re-presenting devices that Chesterton had used. (For a log of episode titles, see <http://otrr.org/FILES/Logs_txt/Cabin%20B-13.txt>.) The 1943 play Cabin B-13 was also expanded into the script for the 1953 film Dangerous Crossing, directed by Joseph M. Newman and starring Michael Rennie and Jeanne Crain. Carr worked extensively for BBC Radio during World War II, writing both mystery stories and propaganda scripts. The British Broadcasting Corporation, which is usually known as the BBC, is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world in terms of audience numbers, employing 26,000 staff in the United Kingdom alone and with a budget of more than GB£4 billion. ... Sample from a screenplay, showing dialogue and action descriptions. ... Year 1943 (MCMXLIII) was a common year starting on Friday (the link will display full 1943 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... CBS Broadcasting, Inc. ... Year 1953 (MCMLIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Joseph M. Newman (August 17, 1909- ) was an American film director most famous for his 1955 film This Island Earth. ... Michael Rennie (August 25, 1909 – June 10, 1971) was an English actor. ... Jeanne Crain Jeanne Elizabeth Crain (May 25, 1925 – December 14, 2003) was an American actress. ... The British Broadcasting Corporation, which is usually known as the BBC, is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world in terms of audience numbers, employing 26,000 staff in the United Kingdom alone and with a budget of more than GB£4 billion. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... Soviet Propaganda Poster during the World War II. The text reads Red Army Fighter, SAVE US! Chinese propaganda poster from during the Cultural Revolution. ...

1942's The Emperor's Snuff-Box became the 1957 British film production That Woman Opposite. In 1950 Carr wrote a novel called The Bride of Newgate, set during the Napoleonic Wars, and this may be called the first full-length historical whodunnit. The Devil in Velvet and Fire, Burn! are the two historicals with which he himself was most pleased. With Adrian Conan Doyle, the youngest son of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Carr wrote a majority of the Sherlock Holmes stories that were published in the 1954 collection The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes {ISBN 0-517-20338-3}. He was also honored by the estate of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle by being asked to write the biography for the legendary author. The book, The Life of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, appeared in 1949 and received generally favorable reviews for its vigor and entertaining style. Later critics have noted that Carr may have glided over difficult issues about Conan Doyle's advocacy of Spiritualism. In 1950, this book brought Carr the first of his two Special Edgar Awards from the Mystery Writers of America; the second came in 1970, in recognition of his 40-year career as a mystery writer. He was also presented the MWA's Grand Master award in 1963. See also: 1941 in literature, other events of 1942, 1943 in literature, list of years in literature. ... The Emperors Snuff-Box is a novel (1942) by mystery novelist John Dickson Carr. ... // October 21 - The movie Jailhouse Rock, starring Elvis Presley, opens. ... See also: 1949 in literature, other events of 1950, 1951 in literature, list of years in literature. ... Combatants Austria[1] Portugal Prussia[1] Russia[2] Sicily  Spain[3]  Sweden United Kingdom[4] French Empire Holland Italy Naples [5] Duchy of Warsaw Bavaria[6] Saxony[7] Denmark-Norway [8] Commanders Archduke Charles Prince Schwarzenberg Karl Mack von Leiberich Gebhard von Blücher Duke of Brunswick â€  Prince of Hohenlohe... The historical whodunnit is a sub-genre of the historical novel, in which the central plot involves a crime (almost always a murder) and the setting is historical. ... Adrian Conan Doyle (1910-1970) was the youngest son of Arthur Conan Doyle, and his fathers literary executor. ... Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, DL (22 May 1859–7 July 1930) was a Scottish born author most noted for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered a major innovation in the field of crime fiction, and the adventures of Professor Challenger. ... A portrait of Sherlock Holmes by Sidney Paget from the Strand Magazine, 1891 Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, who first appeared in publication in 1887. ... Year 1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes (ISBN 0157203383) is a short story collection written by Adrian Conan Doyle and John Dickson Carr, first published in 1954. ... By 1853, when the popular song Spirit Rappings was published, Spiritualism was the object of intense curiosity. ... The Edgar Allan Poe Awards (popularly called the Edgars), named after Edgar Allan Poe, are presented every year by the Mystery Writers of America. ... Mystery Writers of America is an organization for mystery writers, based in New York. ...

Late in life Carr developed an interest in the Southern United States, and a number of his last books are set there. In early spring 1963, at Mamaroneck, Carr suffered a stroke which paralyzed his left side. He continued to write using one hand. He eventually died of lung cancer in Greenville, South Carolina. This article is 88 kilobytes or more in size. ... Stroke (or cerebrovascular accident or CVA) is the clinical designation for a rapidly developing loss of brain function due to an interruption in the blood supply to all or part of the brain. ... Cancer is a class of diseases or disorders characterized by uncontrolled division of cells and the ability of these to spread, either by direct growth into adjacent tissue through invasion, or by implantation into distant sites by metastasis (where cancer cells are transported through the bloodstream or lymphatic system). ... Greenville is the third largest city in the state of South Carolina. ...

Dr. Fell and Sir Henry Merrivale

Carr's two major detectives, Dr. Fell and Sir Henry Merrivale, are superficially quite similar. Both are large, blustery, upper-class, eccentric Englishmen somewhere between middle-aged and elderly. Dr. Fell, however, who was frankly fat and walked only with the aid of two canes, was clearly modeled on the British writer G. K. Chesterton and was at all times a model of civility and geniality. He had a great mop of untidy hair that was often covered by a "shovel hat" and he generally wore a cape. He lived in a modest cottage and had no official connection to any public authorities.

"H.M.", on the other hand, although stout and with a majestic "corporation", was physically active and was feared for his ill-temper and noisy rages. In a 1949 novel, A Graveyard to Let, for example, he demonstrates an unexpected talent for hitting baseballs improbable distances. A well-heeled descendant of the "oldest baronetcy" in England, he was an Establishment figure (even though he frequently railed against it) and in the earlier novels was the head of the British Secret Service. In The Plague Court Murders he is said to be qualified as both a barrister and a medical doctor. Even in the earliest books the bald, bespectacled, and scowling H.M. was clearly a Churchillian figure and in the later novels this similarity was somewhat more consciously evoked. // Artists impression of an English and Irish barrister A barrister is a lawyer found in many common law jurisdictions which employ a split profession (as opposed to a fused profession) in relation to legal representation. ...

Critical appraisal

For many years now Dr. Fell has generally been considered to be Carr's major creation. The British novelist Kingsley Amis, for instance, writes in his essay "My Favorite Sleuths" that Dr. Fell is one of the three great successors to Sherlock Holmes (the other two are Father Brown and Nero Wolfe) and that H.M., "according to me is an old bore." This may be in part because in the Merrivale novels written after World War II H.M. frequently became a comic caricature of himself, especially in the physical misadventures in which he found himself at least once in every novel. Humorous as these episodes were intended to be, they also tended to have the unwanted effect of diminishing his overall persona. Earlier, however, H.M. had been regarded more favorably by a number of critics. Howard Haycraft, author of the seminal Murder for Pleasure: The Life and Times of the Detective Story, wrote in 1941 that H.M. or "The Old Man" was "the present writer's admitted favorite among contemporary fictional sleuths." In 1938 the British mystery writer R. Philmore wrote in an article called "Inquest on Dectective Stories" that Sir Henry was "the most amusing of detectives." And further: "Of course, H.M. is so much the best detective that, once having invented him, his creator could get away with any plot." Sir Kingsley William Amis (April 16, 1922 – October 22, 1995) was an English novelist, poet, critic, and teacher. ... A portrait of Sherlock Holmes by Sidney Paget from the Strand Magazine, 1891 Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, who first appeared in publication in 1887. ... Father Brown is a fictional detective created by English novelist G. K. Chesterton and who stars in five volumes of in total 48 short stories, later compiled in five books. ... Bitter End — Carl Mueller illustrated Rex Stouts Nero Wolfe novella for The American Magazine (November 1940) Nero Wolfe is a fictional detective, created by the American mystery writer Rex Stout, who made his debut in 1934. ...

There is a book-length critical study by S. T. Joshi, John Dickson Carr: A Critical Study (1990) (ISBN 0-87972-477-3). Sunanda Tryambak Joshi (b. ...

The definitive biography of Carr is by Douglas G Greene, John Dickson Carr: The Man Who Explained Miracles (1995) (ISBN 1-883402-47-6)

Novels as John Dickson Carr

1960 paperback edition

Death Watch (1935), 1963 Penguin paperback edition. 251 pages

• It Walks By Night (detective Henri Bencolin) - 1930
• Castle Skull (Bencolin) - 1931
• The Lost Gallows (Bencolin) - 1931
• Poison In Jest - 1932
• The Waxworks Murder (Bencolin) - 1932 (US title: The Corpse In The Waxworks)
• Hag's Nook (detective Dr. Gideon Fell) - 1933
• The Mad Hatter Mystery (Fell) - 1933
• The Blind Barber (Fell) - 1934
• The Eight Of Swords (Fell) - 1934
• Death-Watch (Fell) - 1935
• The Hollow Man (Fell) - 1935 (US title: The Three Coffins)
• The Arabian Nights Murder (Fell) - 1936
• The Burning Court - 1937
• The Four False Weapons, Being the Return of Bencolin (Bencolin) - 1938
• To Wake The Dead (Fell) - 1938
• The Crooked Hinge (Fell) - 1938
• The Black Spectacles (Fell) - 1939 (US title: The Problem Of The Green Capsule)
• The Problem Of The Wire Cage (Fell) - 1939
• The Man Who Could Not Shudder (Fell) - 1940
• The Case of the Constant Suicides (Fell) - 1941
• The Seat Of The Scornful (Fell) - 1942 (US title: Death Turns The Tables)
• The Emperor's Snuff-Box - 1942
• Till Death Do Us Part (Fell) - 1944
• He Who Whispers (Fell) - 1946
• The Sleeping Sphinx (Fell) - 1947
• Below Suspicion (Fell) - 1949 (also features Patrick Butler)
• The Bride Of Newgate - 1950, historical mystery
• The Devil In Velvet - 1951, historical mystery
• The Nine Wrong Answers - 1952
• Captain Cut-Throat - 1955, historical mystery
• Patrick Butler For The Defence (detective Patrick Butler) - 1956
• Fire, Burn! - 1957, historical mystery
• The Dead Man's Knock (Fell) - 1958
• Scandal At High Chimneys: A Victorian Melodrama - 1959, historical mystery
• In Spite Of Thunder (Fell) - 1960
• The Witch Of The Low-Tide: An Edwardian Melodrama - 1961, historical mystery
• The Demoniacs - 1962, historical mystery
• Most Secret - 1964 (This was a revision of a novel by Carr that was published in 1934 as Devil Kinsmere under the pseudonym "Roger Fairbairn")
• The House At Satan's Elbow (Fell) - 1965
• Panic In Box C (Fell) - 1966
• Dark Of The Moon (Fell) - 1968
• Papa La-Bas - 1968, historical mystery
• The Ghosts' High Noon - 1970, historical mystery
• Deadly Hall - 1971, historical mystery
• The Hungry Goblin: A Victorian Detective Novel - 1972, (Wilkie Collins is the detective)

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Novels as Carter Dickson

1987 paperback edition

A Graveyard To Let (1950), 1955 Pan paperback edition. 222 pages

• The Bowstring Murders - 1934 (Originally published as by Carr Dickson, but Carr's publishers complained that the name was too similar to Carr's real name, so Carter Dickson was substituted.)
• The Plague Court Murders (detective: Sir Henry Merrivale) - 1934
• The White Priory Murders (Merrivale) - 1934
• The Red Widow Murders (Merrivale) - 1935
• The Unicorn Murders (Merrivale) - 1935
• The Punch And Judy Murders (Merrivale) -1936 (US title: The Magic Lantern Murders)
• The Ten Teacups (Merrivale) - 1937 (US title: The Peacock Feather Murders)
• The Judas Window (Merrivale) - 1938 (US title: The Crossbow Murder)
• Death In Five Boxes (Merrivale) - 1938
• Drop To His Death (in collaboration with John Rhode) - 1939 (US title: Fatal Descent)
• The Reader Is Warned (Merrivale) - 1939
• And So To Murder (Merrivale) - 1940
• Murder In The Submarine Zone (Merrivale) - 1940 (US title: Nine - And Death Makes Ten, also published as Murder in the Atlantic)
• Seeing Is Believing (Merrivale) - 1941 (also published as Cross of Murder)
• The Gilded Man (Merrivale) - 1942
• She Died A Lady (Merrivale) - 1943
• He Wouldn't Kill Patience (Merrivale) - 1944
• Lord Of The Sorcerers (Merrivale) - 1945 (US title: The Curse Of The Bronze Lamp)
• My Late Wives (Merrivale) - 1946
• The Skeleton In The Clock (Merrivale) - 1948
• A Graveyard To Let (Merrivale) - 1949
• Night At The Mocking Widow (Merrivale) - 1950
• Behind The Crimson Blind (Merrivale) - 1952
• The Cavalier's Cup (Merrivale) - 1953
• Fear Is The Same - 1956, historical mystery

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Novels as Fenton Carter

• Death has Four Faces - 1948, mystery

Short story collections

• The Department of Queer Complaints (as Carter Dickson) (detective: Colonel March) - 1940
• Dr. Fell, Detective, and Other Stories - 1947 (Fell)
• The Third Bullet and Other Stories of Detection - 1954
• The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes, with Adrian Conan Doyle - 1954 (Sherlock Holmes)
• The Men Who Explained Miracles - 1963 (Fell, Merrivale, and others)
• The Door to Doom and Other Detections - 1980 (includes radio plays)
• The Dead Sleep Lightly - 1983 (radio plays)
• Fell and Foul Play - 1991 (includes the full version of The Third Bullet)
• Merrivale, March and Murder - 1991 (includes all the stories from The Department of Queer Complaints + one, that is: all Colonel March stories)

The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes (ISBN 0157203383) is a short story collection written by Adrian Conan Doyle and John Dickson Carr, first published in 1954. ...

Plays

• Speak of the Devil - 1994 (a radio play in 8 parts). First publication of Carr's radio script. Written in 1941.
• Thirteen to the Gallows - a collection of Carr's major stage plays (Crippen & Landru)
• The Old Time Radio Series "Suspense" contains 22 plays by Carr, many of them not available in printed form. The radio plays can be downloaded from this site in MP3 format: http://www.archive.org/index.php]
• BBC has issued a set of two 90 minute cassettes containing radio versions of The Hollow Man and Till Death us Do Part.

Suspense, one of the premier drama programs of the Golden Age of Radio, was subtitled radios outstanding theater of thrills. ...

Non-fiction

• The Murder of Sir Edmund Godfrey - 1936, historical recreation of a noted murder in 1678
• The Life of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - 1949, the authorized biography

See also

• Crime fiction

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External links

• Illustrated Bibliography of 1st Editions
• The John Dickson Carr Collector pictures of first edition covers
• John Dickson Carr: Explaining the Inexplicable by Douglas G. Greene on MysteryNet.com
• Page about Carr from the Books and Writers site.
• John Dickson Carr - Master of the Locked Room Mystery by Alexander G. Rubio at Bits of News.com, 30 November 2006.
• John Dickson Carr One Hundred Years On 'Of the Moment' article by Nicholas Fuller on Mysterical-E Spring 2007.
• The Ministry of Miracles: The Detective Fiction of John Dickson Carr a site made by Nicholas Lester Fuller which includes book reviews.