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  • The Lost Gallows

    A Positronic Book

    by John Dickson Carr ...
    In the fog-shrouded streets of London, a sinister figure from the city's bloodstained past appears to have returned to life. Someone calling himself Jack Ketch, after England's notorious executioner, has begun terrorizing the wealthy Egyptian Nezam El Moulk with miniature gallows, threatening messages, and unmistakable promises of death. At the exclusive but increasingly disreputable Brimstone ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD

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  • 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

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • 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

  • Vex Not His Ghost

    by John Dickson Carr ...
    Vex Not His Ghost by John Dickson Carr is a classic locked-room mystery infused with Carr’s signature blend of suspense, intricate plotting, and eerie atmosphere. The story revolves around a seemingly supernatural event—a ghostly presence that haunts a wealthy estate, terrifying its inhabitants and raising questions about reality versus deception. As the plot unfolds, Carr expertly combines ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD

  • 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

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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 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

  • Scandal at High Chimneys

    by John Dickson Carr ...
    Series Book 476 - Murder Room
    Matthew Damon was a loving father and a figure of moral rectitude. Why, then, has a rumour of scandal followed him, denying him the knighthood he thought he had earned? Why had he, long ago, repeatedly and alone visited the cells of condemned young women?Behind the discreetly drawn curtains at High Chimneys something sinister lurked. Black-haired Kate and demure Celia were suspect. Brother Victor ... Read more

    $5.99 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

  • Castle Skull

    by John Dickson Carr ...
    Series series British Library Crime Classics
    From the archives of the British Library, the master of locked-room mystery John Dickson Carr presents an atmospheric and haunting example of crime fiction written in the Golden Age of Murder.Alison has been murdered. But his blazing body was seen running about the battlements of Castle Skull.And so a dark shadow looms over the Rhineland where Inspector Henri Bencolin and his accomplice Jeff Marle ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Audiobook

    The Seat of the Scornful

    by John Dickson Carr ...
    Narrated by Kris Dyer ...
    Series series British Library Crime Classics

    Unabridged

    8 hours 39 min

    When the police arrive at the holiday bungalow of the haughty Justice Ireton to find a man killed by gunshot and the high court judge brandishing a pistol, the case seems as straightforward as it is scandalous. Yet, with the incongruous assemblage of physical evidence, the judge's denial of any participation in the crime and the recent events of his daughter's love life combined, the deceptively ... Read more

    $50.20 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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