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John Dickson Carr: A Critical Study

John Dickson Carr: A Critical Study

S. T. Joshi

John Dickson Carr is known as the master of the “locked-room” mystery—the “impossible crime.” But Carr also wrote short stories, radio plays, essays, introductions, and book reviews.
And So to Murder

And So to Murder

John Dickson Carr

And So to Murder by John Dickson Carr (as Carter Dickson), a Sir Henry Merrivale mystery. “A first-class murder mystery [and] also a ribald satire of the motion picture industry.”—The Vancouver Sun DEATH RIDES THE TUBE.
The Witch of the Low Tide

The Witch of the Low Tide

John Dickson Carr

'John Dickson Carr's flair for the impossible crime shows through at its very best in this historical puzzler' The Times
The Columbia Guide to Contemporary African American Fiction

The Columbia Guide to Contemporary African American Fiction

Darryl Dickson-Carr

The College Language Association was intended as a racially integrated response to the Modern Language Association of America, which did not welcome African American members at that time. Its membership presently comprises ...
John Dickson Carr: The Man who Explained Miracles

John Dickson Carr: The Man who Explained Miracles

Douglas G. Greene

Going behind the scenes of the theatrical, ingenious productions of the master of "impossible crime" and "locked room" mysteries, a look at the world and adventures of John Dickson Carr shows how the man and his work were one.
The Demoniacs

The Demoniacs

John Dickson Carr

'No one is so consistently successful as Carr' New York Times Book Review
Scandal at High Chimneys

Scandal at High Chimneys

John Dickson Carr

John Dickson Carr. And So To Murder (1940) Murder in the Submarine Zone ( 1940) aka Nine – and Death Makes Ten, also published as Murder in the Atlantic Seeing is Believing (1941)aka Crossof and Murder The Gilded Man (1942) ...
The Carr Family Records: Embacing [sic] the Record of the ...

The Carr Family Records: Embacing [sic] the Record of the ...

Edson Irving Carr

James Edward Carr, b. July 14, 1848. 6697x4. Sarah Cordelia Carr, l). Jan. 5, 18" i0. 6698 5. Frank Eugene Carr, b. Oct. 2S, 1851, d. June 22, 1876. 6699x6. Phila Amelia Carr, b. Jan. 10, 1853 6700 7. Fred Henry Carr, b. Dec. 16, 1854, d.
The Blind Barber

The Blind Barber

John Dickson Carr

A thief is loose aboard HMS Queen Victoria, and four amateur detectives are hell-bent on tracking him down.
Death-Watch

Death-Watch

John Dickson Carr

For Dr Gideon Fell this is the only case that has ever really frightened him, and before he can solve it he must find answers to some seemingly impossible questions: why was Calvin Boscombe standing near the corpse with a silencer on his ...
Fire, Burn!

Fire, Burn!

John Dickson Carr

One October night in the middle of the twentieth century Detective Inspector John Cheviot got into a taxi, bound for New Scotland Yard.
Allen Carr's Easy Way to Stop Smoking: Be a Happy Non-smoker ...

Allen Carr's Easy Way to Stop Smoking: Be a Happy Non-smoker ...

Allen Carr

And I haven't smoked since' Ashton Kutcher Special offer: Recover the cost of this book when you attend an Allen Carr Clinic. Allen Carr was an accountant who smoked 100 cigarettes a day until he discovered EASYWAY.
Growing Pains: The Autobiography of Emily Carr

Growing Pains: The Autobiography of Emily Carr

Emily Carr

" Completed just before Emily Carr died in 1945, Growing Pains tells the story of Carr’s life, beginning with her girlhood in pioneer Victoria and going on to her training as an artist in San Francisco, England and France.
The Hollow Man

The Hollow Man

John Dickson Carr

'The first deadly walking of the hollow man took place when the side streets of London were quiet with snow and the three coffins of the prophecy were filled at last.
To Wake The Dead

To Wake The Dead

John Dickson Carr

Christopher Kent, worth a quarter of a million pounds yet without a penny in his pocket, stands hungrily in Piccadilly one snowy morning, looking up at the huge hotel, when a piece of card bearing a number floats down to him.
In Spite of Thunder

In Spite of Thunder

John Dickson Carr

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.
The Emperor's Snuff-Box

The Emperor's Snuff-Box

John Dickson Carr

The scene is a fashionable French seaside resort; the witness, Eve Neill, is looking out of her window in the early hours of the morning when she sees the battered body of her prospective father-in-law in the room opposite.
The New England Historical and Genealogical Register

The New England Historical and Genealogical Register

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The late Edson Irving Carr compiled "The Carr Family Records" which was published in Rockton, 111., in 1894, and Arthur Adkins Carr compiled "The Carr Book" which was published in Ticonderoga, N. Y., in 1947. Both of these volumes  ...
Front-End Analysis and Return on Investment Toolkit

Front-End Analysis and Return on Investment Toolkit

Harold D. Stolovitch

Bravo!" –Darryl Sink, president, Darryl Sink & Associates "Unique blending of best practices and science for the work that human performance improvement practitioners are now being asked to do–namely, ‘show me what you are going to do ...
Ghosts, Spirits, and Psychics: The Paranormal from Alchemy ...

Ghosts, Spirits, and Psychics: The Paranormal from Alchemy ...

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Darryl V. Caterine See also: Mediumship; New Age; Spiritualism Further Reading Caterine, Darryl. 2011. Haunted Ground: Journeys through a Paranormal America. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO/Praeger Press. Lily Dale Assembly.
Brian Dickson: A Judge's Journey

Brian Dickson: A Judge's Journey

Robert J. Sharpe

Engaging and incisive, Brian Dickson: A Judge's Journey traces Dickson's life from a Depression-era boyhood in Saskatchewan, to the battlefields of Normandy, the boardrooms of corporate Canada and high judicial office, and provides an ...
No More Worrying: The revolutionary Allen Carr's Easy Way ...

No More Worrying: The revolutionary Allen Carr's Easy Way ...

Allen Carr

With stress and anxiety problems on the rise, Allen Carr's famous method is sure to be a top seller in this category.
Klee Wyck

Klee Wyck

Emily Carr

These are beautifully crafted keepsake editions of the literary world of Emily Carr, each with an introduction by a distinguished Canadian writer or authority on Emily Carr and her work.
The Life of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Life of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

John Dickson Carr

A profile based on the subject's personal archives describes such topics as Doyle's education at Stonyhurst and Edinburgh University, his Southsea medical practice, his two marriages, his forays into politics and spiritualism, his ...
The Best of Gordon R. Dickson, Volume 1:

The Best of Gordon R. Dickson, Volume 1:

Gordon R. Dickson

“Love Story” was created by Gordon R. Dickson specifically for inclusion in The Last Dangerous Visions, meant to be the second sequel to Dangerous Visions, Harlan Ellison's groundbreaking, skybreaking, mindbreaking anthology of original ...
Scandal at High Chimneys: a Victorian melodrama

Scandal at High Chimneys: a Victorian melodrama

John Dickson Carr

You must not smoke a cigar here, Clive could well imagine. Behind the drawing- room lay the library, unlighted; and behind that, if he remembered correctly, was Matthew Damon's study. Clive opened the door giving on the main hall.
Fifty Best Mysteries

Fifty Best Mysteries

Eleanor Sullivan

Chosen from the best mystery magazines in the world, this collection of fifty great mystery stories from the past sixty years includes the work of John Dickson Carr, Margery Allingham, Anthony Boucher, and Ngaio Marsh, as well as Patricia ...
The Outposter

The Outposter

Gordon R Dickson

Gordon R Dickson. THE OUTPOSTER Gordon R. Dickson www.sfgateway.com Enter the SF Gateway ... In the last years of.

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