Over the years, I’ve read plenty of ingenious mystery novels twice, but John Dickson Carr’s “The Three Coffins” is among the very few I’ve enjoyed three times. This fall, Penzler ...

Pennsylvania-born John Dickson Carr (1906-1977) hit on the ultimate mystery, the murder that takes place in a hermetically sealed room, and wrote variations that increased in ornate complexity ...

This season there are many new titles to choose from, some by familiar authors like Donna Leon and John Dickson Carr, and others by newer voices like Wanda Morris, Iris Mwanza and Delia Pitts.

Furthermore, the British Library’s wonderful Crime Classics series has brought several long-neglected authors back into print (including two of the very greatest, John Dickson Carr and ...

The superior skills of Carr (1906–1977) at crafting creepy atmospherics in the service of fair-play plots are manifest in this intriguing collection of 10 of his earliest short stories.

is considered to be the apex of the genre and writer John Dickson Carr its master. The story follows the murders of professor Dr. Charles Girmaud, who was killed in a room that was closed from ...

The mystery of The Blind Barber, a 1934 whodunit by John Dickson Carr, concerns a collection of valuable straight razors gone missing. The mystery of the Blind Barber, a hair-cuttery/drinking hole ...

Over the years, I’ve read plenty of ingenious mystery novels twice, but John Dickson Carr’s “The Three Coffins” is among the very few I’ve enjoyed three times. This fall, Penzler ...