John Dickson Carr Books In Order

Publication Order of Dr. Gideon Fell Books

Hag’s Nook	1933
The Mad Hatter Mystery	1933
The Eight of Swords	1934
The Blind Barber	1934
Death-Watch	1935
The Hollow Man / The Three Coffins	1935
The Arabian Nights Murder	1936
To Wake the Dead	1937
The Crooked Hinge	1938
The Black Spectacles / The Problem of the Green Capsule	1939
The Problem of the Wire Cage	1939
The Man Who Could Not Shudder	1940
The Case of the Constant Suicides	1941
Death Turns the Tables / The Seat of the Scornful	1941
Till Death Do Us Part	1944
He Who Whispers	1946
The Sleeping Sphinx	1947
Below Suspicion	1949
The Dead Man’s Knock	1958
In Spite of Thunder	1960
The House at Satan’s Elbow	1965
Panic in Box C	1966
Dark of the Moon	1967

Publication Order of Henri Bencolin Books

It Walks by Night	1930
The Lost Gallows	1931
Castle Skull	1931
The Waxworks Murder / The Corpse in the Waxworks	1932
The Four False Weapons	1937

Publication Order of Sir Henry Merrivale Books (As Carter Dickson)

The Plague Court Murders	1934
The White Priory Murders	1934
The Red Widow Murders	1935
The Unicorn Murders	1935
The Punch and Judy Murders / The Magic Lantern Murders	1936
The Ten Teacups / The Peacock Feather Murders	1937
The Judas Window / The Crossbow Murder	1938
Death in Five Boxes	1938
The Reader Is Warned	1939
And So to Murder	1940
Murder in the Submarine Zone / Nine - and Death Makes Ten	1940
Seeing Is Believing / Cross of Murder	1941
The Gilded Man / Death and the Gilded Man	1942
She Died a Lady	1943
He Wouldn’t Kill Patience	1944
The Curse of the Bronze Lamp / Lord of the Sorcerers	1945
My Late Wives	1946
The Skeleton in the Clock	1948
A Graveyard to Let	1949
Night at the Mocking Widow	1950
Behind the Crimson Blind	1952
The Cavalier’s Cup	1953

Publication Order of Carter Dickson Standalone Novels

The Bowstring Murders	1933
Drop to His Death / Fatal Descent (With: John Rhode)	1939
Fear Is the Same	1956

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

Poison in Jest	1932
Devil Kinsmere (As: Roger Fairbairn)	1934
The Burning Court	1937
The Emperor’s Snuff-Box	1942
The Bride of Newgate	1950
The Devil in Velvet	1951
The Nine Wrong Answers	1952
Captain Cut-Throat	1955
Patrick Butler for the Defence	1956
Fire, Burn!	1957
Scandal at High Chimneys	1959
The Witch of the Low Tide	1961
The Demoniacs	1962
Most Secret	1964
Papa La-Bas	1968
The Ghosts’ High Noon	1969
Deadly Hall	1971
The Hungry Goblin	1972

Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas

The Third Bullet (As: Carter Dickson)

1937

Publication Order of Short Story Collections

The Department of Queer Complaints (As: Carter Dickson)	1940
Dr. Fell, Detective, and Other Stories	1947
The Third Bullet and Other Stories	1954
The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes (With: Adrian Conan Doyle)	1954
The Men Who Explained Miracles	1963
The Door to Doom and Other Detections	1980
The Dead Sleep Lightly	1983
Fell and Foul Play	1991
Merrivale, March and Murder	1991
The Kindling Spark: Early Tales of Mystery, Horror, and Adventure	2022

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

The Murder of Sir Edmund Godfrey	1936
The Life of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle	1949

About John Dickson Carr

John Dickson Carr (30 November 1906 to 27 February 1977) was an American detective novelist regarded as a master of the locked-room mystery. He created Dr Gideon Fell under his own name and Sir Henry Merrivale under the pseudonym Carter Dickson, and his Fell novel “The Hollow Man” (1935) was voted the best locked-room mystery of all time by a panel of mystery writers and reviewers in 1981.

Carr was born in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, the son of Wooda Nicholas Carr, a US congressman. He graduated from The Hill School in 1925 and Haverford College in 1929. In the early 1930s he moved to England, where he married an Englishwoman, Clarice Cleaves, and began his career. Most of his novels have English settings and characters, and he is often grouped with British writers of the Golden Age of detective fiction. He was one of only two Americans admitted to the Detection Club.

His first novel, “It Walks by Night” (1930), introduced the Paris police detective Henri Bencolin, who appears in five books. Dr Fell, a large and genial scholar modelled on G. K. Chesterton, arrived in “Hag’s Nook” (1933) and features in 23 novels, among them “The Crooked Hinge” and “He Who Whispers”. Sir Henry Merrivale, known as H.M., a noisy and ill-tempered baronet who is both barrister and doctor, first appeared in “The Plague Court Murders” (1934) and leads 22 Carter Dickson novels, including “The Judas Window” (1938).

From 1950 Carr turned increasingly to historical mysteries, starting with “The Bride of Newgate”, set in 1815. He named “The Devil in Velvet” and “Fire, Burn!”, both of which involve time travel, as the two with which he was most pleased. He also wrote the authorised biography “The Life of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle” (1949), collaborated with Adrian Conan Doyle on “The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes” (1954) and wrote many radio plays for the BBC and for the American series Suspense.

Carr returned to the United States in 1948. The Mystery Writers of America gave him special Edgar Awards in 1950 and 1970 and the Grand Master award in 1963. A stroke in 1963 paralysed his left side, but he kept writing; his last novel, “The Hungry Goblin”, appeared in 1972. He died of lung cancer in Greenville, South Carolina. The Carter Dickson story collection “The Department of Queer Complaints” was the basis of the television series Colonel March of Scotland Yard, starring Boris Karloff.