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  • The Mad Hatter Mystery

    by John Dickson Carr ...
    Series series American Mystery Classics
    A corpse in a top hat leads Dr. Gideon Fell to a killer with a sick sense of humor in this mystery by the celebrated author of Hag's Nook.At the hand of an outrageous prankster, top hats are going missing all over London, snatched from the heads of some of the city's most powerful people―but is the hat thief the same as the person responsible for stealing a lost story by Edgar Allan Poe, the ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Crooked Hinge

    by John Dickson Carr ...
    Series series American Mystery Classics
    In this mystery by the acclaimed author of To Wake the Dead, an inheritance hangs in the balance in a case of stolen identities, imposters, and murder.Banished from the idyllic English countryside he once called home and en route to live with his cousin in America, Sir John Farnleigh, black sheep of the wealthy Farnleigh clan, nearly perished in the sinking of the Titanic. Though he survived the ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Plague Court Murders

    A Sir Henry Merrivale Mystery

    by John Dickson Carr ...
    Series series Sir Henry Merrivale Mysteries
    When a spiritual medium is murdered in a locked hut on a haunted estate, Sir Henry Merrivale seeks a logical solution to a ghostly crime.Plague Court is old and crumbling, long neglected after its lord, hangman's assistant Louis Playge, fell victim to the black death hundreds of years before. Famously haunted by Playge's ghost, the property finally has a new owner and banishing the spirit is the ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Hollow Man

    As seen in KNIVES OUT: WAKE UP DEAD MAN

    by John Dickson Carr ...
    The most famous of all locked-room mysteries - a classic in the crime genre.If you like the new KNIVES OUT film WAKE UP DEAD MAN you'll love this!***'***The sheer ingenuity of the plot is a delight' Daily Mail'A key influence on WAKE UP DEAD MAN' Radio Times'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... ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

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  • The Case of the Constant Suicides

    by John Dickson Carr ...
    Series series Dr. Gideon Fell
    Dr. Gideon Fell investigates multiple impossible crimes in this celebrated mystery from the master of the locked room mystery.After Angus Campbell falls to his death from a high window, his family is summoned to his Scottish manor to settle the estate. Just before his death, Campbell took out several large life insurance policies—all of which are voided in the event of suicide. The door to the ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • The Three Coffins

    by John Dickson Carr ...
    Series series Dr. Gideon Fell
    Dr. Gideon Fell solves two impossible murders in one of the most baffling locked room mysteries ever created.Professor Charles Grimaud is found dead in his study just moments after his housekeeper watched him greet a mysterious visitor and welcome him into the room. Yet no sign of the murderer or murder weapon can be found. The housekeeper saw no one leave through the door and the snow outside the ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Problem of the Wire Cage

    A Gideon Fell Mystery

    by John Dickson Carr ...
    Series series Dr. Gideon Fell
    Death and tennis meet in one of impossible crime master John Dickson Carr's most memorable cases.John Dickson Carr is famous for his puzzling “impossible crime” plots, in which corpses are discovered in scenarios that seem to lack any logical explanation, concealing clues as to how the murder was committed and how the body arrived in its current setting.Among all of Carr’s ingenious crime scenes, ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Burning Court

    by John Dickson Carr ...
    Series series American Mystery Classics
    A suspicious death has the hallmarks of witchcraft in this locked room mystery by a master of the genre.When Edward Stevens, an editor at Herald and Son's publishing house, learns of the mysterious events that befell his neighbor's rich uncle, he shrugs off their seemingly supernatural circumstances. He's a logical man and doesn't give much credence to claims of a ghostly figure visiting the man ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Golden Age Mystery Anthology: 40 Timeless Detective Stories. Illustrated

    The Man Who Knew by Agatha Christie, Where Do We Go from Here? by Dorothy L. Sayers, The Mystery Man of Soho by Margery Allingham, The Yellow Sphere by John Rhode, Boots by Ngaio Marsh, A Piece of Cake by Christianna Brand, and Others

    by Agatha Christie, Margery Allingham, Dorothy L. Sayers, Edmund Crispin, Georgette Heyer, John Rhode, E. C. R. Lorac, Anthony Berkeley, S. S. Van Dine, H. C. Bailey, A. A. Milne, Arthur Upfield, Freeman Wills Crofts, John Dickson Carr, Ngaio Marsh, Anthony Gilbert, Christianna Brand, J. Jefferson Farjeon, George Bellairs, Victor L. Whitechurch, E. C. Bentley, Patricia Highsmith ...
    The Golden Age Mystery Anthology: 40 Timeless Detective Stories is a richly illustrated collection that celebrates the brilliance, elegance, and enduring appeal of classic crime fiction. Bringing together forty masterfully crafted tales, this volume showcases the finest works of the genre’s most iconic authors, including Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Margery Allingham, John Dickson Carr, ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD

  • The Bride of Newgate

    by John Dickson Carr ...
    Series Book 557 - Murder Room
    Dick Darwent brooded in a dark cell of Newgate Prison - waiting to be hanged. Lady Caroline Ross, rich, cold and beautiful, prepared a champagne breakfast to celebrate her marriage. How were the fates of these two people intertwined? And how were their lives changed by a shot through a bathroom window, a riot at the opera, a pistol duel at dawn, and a mysterious coachman whose cloak was stained ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • The Emperor's Snuff-Box

    by John Dickson Carr ...
    Series Book 628 - Murder Room
    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.By Eve's side is her ex-husband, who has attempted to force his unwelcome attentions on her. How can Eve tell the police what she saw when disclosing whom she was with might ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • To Wake The Dead

    by John Dickson Carr ...
    Series Book 790 - Murder Room
    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. He enters and is served with breakfast, giving the waiter the room number. Then an unlucky chance compels him to go up to room 707. Inside a woman lies murdered in a trunk ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD