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Carter Dickson
Full Series List in Order
A Sir Henry Merrivale Mystery
1 - The Plague Court Murders (1934)2 - The White Priory Murders (1934)
3 - The Red Widow Murders (Nov-2001)
4 - The Unicorn Murders (1935)
5 - Punch and Judy Murders // The Magic Lantern Murders (1936)
6 - The Peacock Feather Murders (1937)
7 - The Judas Window // The Crossbow Murder (1938)
8 - Death in Five Boxes (1938)
9 - The Reader Is Warned (1939)
10 - And So to Murder (1940)
11 - Nine and Death Makes Ten (1940)
12 - Seeing Is Believing (1941)
13 - The Gilded Man (1942)
14 - She Died a Lady (1943)
15 - He Wouldn't Kill Patience (1944)
16 - The Curse of the Bronze Lamp (1945)
17 - My Late Wives (1946)
18 - The Skeleton in the Clock (1948)
19 - Graveyard to Let (1949)
20 - Night at the Mocking Widow (1950)
21 - Behind the Crimson Blind (1952)
22 - Cavalier's Cup (1953)
Book List in Order: 30 titles
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The Plague Court Murders
- 1934
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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 victi...
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The White Priory Murders
- 1934
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James Bennett has been invited to stay at White Priory for Christmas among the retinue of the glamorous Hollywood actress Marcia Tait. Her producer, her lover, the playwright for her next hit and her agent are all here, soon to become so many suspect...
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The Unicorn Murders
- 1935
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Gasquet, France's best policeman, pursues Flamande, France's greatest criminal, on a flight from Marseilles to Paris and when the plane makes an emergency landing and a murder takes place, it is Sir Henry Merrivale's job to identify both men, each a ...
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Death in Five Boxes
- 1938
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Carter Dickson (a.k.a. John Dickson Carr) is certainly the master of the locked-room mystery, a category which might as well be named after him. In "Death in Five Boxes," Carr presents not a locked-room mystery but a nonetheless apparently impossible...
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The Judas Window // The Crossbow Murder
- 1938
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H.M. SOLVES AN INCREDIBLE CRIME Avory Hume is found stabbed to death with an arrow -- in a study with bolted steel shutters and a heavy door locked from the inside. In the same room James Caplon Anwell lies unconscious, his clothes disordered as t...
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The Reader Is Warned
- 1939
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While visiting the house of a friend to meet Herman Pennik, who claims to be a mind reader, Dr. John Sanders ends up investigating the death of his host, an event which was predicted by Pennik shortly before it took place...
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He Wouldn't Kill Patience
- 1944
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"What the Goddamnholyblazes is goin' on in here?" roared the great Sir Henry Merrivale when he saw the tropical American lizard (Amieva Amieva), two feet long, with yellow stripes and in a bad temper, coming at him at full speed down the Reptile Hous...
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The Curse of the Bronze Lamp
- 1945
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THE MYSTERIOUS [MIDDLE] EAST was where lovely Lady Helen had just returned from. In defiance of the most dire predictions, she carried back to Severn Hall a gift from the Egyptian government: and ancient bronze lamp. It had come from a tomb that H...
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Graveyard to Let
- 1949
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Shortly after leaping into his swimming pool and vanishing without a trace, American arts patron and accused embezzler Frederick Manning is found dead in a nearby graveyard and his old friend, British sleuth Sir Henry Merrivale, investigates...
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Night at the Mocking Widow
- 1950
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Letters containing vicious accusations are received by Stoke Druid residents, then timid Cordelia Martin is discovered drowned in the River Lea and the incomparable sleuth Sir Henry Merrivale investigates...
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Behind the Crimson Blind
- 1952
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World-famous supersleuth Sir Henry Merrivale's visit to Tangier is supposed to be a vacation, but with the brazen international thief known as "Iron Chest" also in town, Sir Henry cannot resist flexing his crook-catching muscle...
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The Red Widow Murders
- Nov-2001
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Marie-Hortense Sanson's family - solid, kindly, bourgeois, and businesslike - went up in the world all during the eighteenth century, and in the nineties was powerful enough to shelter her English husband in the thick of revolutionary Paris, and late...
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Blind Man's Hood
- 2018
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A Christmas party is punctuated by a gunshot under a policeman's watchful eye. A jewel heist is planned amidst the glitz and glamour of Oxford Street's Christmas shopping. Lost in a snowstorm, a man finds a motive for murder. This collec...
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The Ten Teacups
- Sep-2025
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'There will be ten teacups at number 4, Berwick Terrace, W.8, on Wednesday, July 31st, at 5 p.m. Precisely. The presence of the Metropolitan Police is respectfully requested.' The note was delivered to New Scotland Yard, its words evoking a cold murd...
