Over the years, I’ve read plenty of ingenious mystery novels twice, but John Dickson Carr’s “The Three Coffins” is among the ...

5 mystery novels for late-summer reading. Get lost in tales of suspense by Donna Leon, John Dickson Carr, Wanda Morris, Iris Mwanza and Delia Pitts.

Sometimes authors fall out of favour simply because they relentlessly pursue a single theme. Pennsylvania-born John Dickson Carr (1906-1977) hit on the ultimate mystery, the murder that takes ...

John Dickson Carr. Penzler, $25.95 (288p) ISBN 978-1-61316-390-0. How could a room only be deadly for a solitary individual? That’s the baffling question at the heart of this ingenious 1935 ...

John Dickson Carr. American Mystery Classics, $15.95 trade paper (288p) ISBN 978-1-61316-487-7. How could someone be strangled to death in the middle of a sodden clay tennis court without the ...

These mystery novels are so clever they deserve a second read. New editions of books by John Dickson Carr, Tom Mead and Edna Sherry remind me why I loved them the first time.

books-mysteries. 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.