John Dickson Carr
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Most Influential Person Across History
American writer
Why Is John Dickson Carr Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, John Dickson Carr was an American author of detective stories, who also published using the pseudonymss Carter Dickson, Carr Dickson, and Roger Fairbairn. He lived in England for a number of years, and is often grouped among "British-style" mystery writers. Most of his novels had English settings, especially country villages and estates, and English characters. His two best-known fictional detectives were both English.
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What Are John Dickson Carr's Academic Contributions?
John Dickson Carr has made the following academic contributions:
- To Wake the Dead
- Till Death Do Us Part
- The Witch of the Low Tide
- The Waxworks Murder
- The Sleeping Sphinx
- The Skeleton in the Clock
- The Reader is Warned
- The Problem of the Wire Cage
- The Plague Court Murders
- The Nine Wrong Answers
- The Men Who Explained Miracles
- The Mad Hatter Mystery
- The Lost Gallows
- The Eight of Swords
- The Devil in Velvet
- The Demoniacs
- The Dead Man's Knock
- The Curse of the Bronze Lamp
- The Crooked Hinge
- The Cavalier's Cup
- The Burning Court
- The Bride of Newgate
- The Blind Barber
- The Black Spectacles
- The Arabian Nights Murder
- Scandal at High Chimneys
- Poison in Jest
- Patrick Butler for the Defense
- Night at the Mocking Widow
- It Walks By Night
- He Who Whispers
- Death-Watch
- Death Turns the Tables
- Castle Skull
- Below Suspicion
- And So to Murder
- She Died a Lady