Read Series: Dr. Gideon Fell
by Author John Dickson Carr
Below Suspicion (1986)
A terrifying cult of devil-worshippers makes murder part of its evil ritual. An arrogant lawyer cynically defends a woman he's sure is guilty and finds himself helpless to clear one he knows is innocent. Here is a chilling story of horror and brutality told in the heavy atmosphere of marihuana-fi...
In Spite of Thunder (1987)
Hate! Jealousy and humiliation twisted and warped Eve Ferrier. Filled with hate she conceived a plan for revenge - a plan so corroded with evil and malevolence it defied human imagination. Then suddenly brutal murder was done. Only Gideon Fell could unravel the complicated cross-currents of malig...
The Blind Barber (1984)
The bunk’s mattress was soaked wit blood.The old-fashioned razor was folded shut.But it had been recently used. It was smeared with blood. A voice broke the terrible stillness in the stateroom: “The Blind Barber Has Been Here Tonight!”On an Atlantic crossing of the good ship Queen Victoria, a vic...
He Who Whispers (1986)
At the edge of the woods by the river stands the tower. Once part of a chateau since burnt down, only the tower remains. The inside is but a shell with a stone staircase climbing spirally up the wall to a flat stone roof with a parapet. One that parapet the body of Howard Brooke lay bleeding. The...
The Problem of the Green Capsule (1986)
John Dickson Carr is one of the grand masters of the locked room and the [apparently] impossible crime. And, of course, The Problem of the Green Capsule is another such specimen. It begins with Dr. Marcus Chesney lecturing his household and associates on the fact that eyewitnesses are unreliable-...