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	John Dickson Carr - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Carr was born in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, the son of a sometime Democratic Congressman.
		The Dr. Fell mystery The Three Coffins (aka The Hollow Man) (1935), usually considered Carr's masterpiece, features crimes that are variations on both of these scenarios and that has a notable discourse by Dr. Fell on the nature of impossible crimes.
		Fell, however, who was frankly fat and walked only with the aid of two canes, was clearly modeled on the British writer G. Chesterton and was at all times a model of civility and geniality.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Dickson_Carr (1460 words)

	Dr. Fell thumbnails
		Meet Dr. Fell, the corpulent former schoolmaster, lexicographer, and chronicler of the history of drinking in England.
		The first thing one notices about Dr. Fell is his size; in his first appearance he is described as having a face that is large, round and ruddy with a twitching smile "somewhere above several chins".
		Fell's large size and good nature fool some into thinking he is only as intelligent as he is nimble.
	www.jdcarr.com /dr_fell_thumbnails.htm (234 words)

	carr
		Gideon Fell soon finds himself up to his chins in misadventures as he wades into a comedy of terrors that boasts a reel of compromising film, an emerald elephant, and a lethal razor for props, murder as the evil deed, and unmitigated mayhem as the comedy relief.
		When Dr. Gideon Fell, that most eminent of eccentric sleuths, finds himself at a party whose guests are in a state of deep agitation, all the faculties of his detective genius are called into play.
		Gideon Fell, visiting with his good friend Professor Melson next door at the time of the murder, is on hand to discover a young man standing over the body with a gun.
	www.fortunecity.com /millennium/sat/212/carr.htm (4758 words)

	Mystery Guide - The Crooked Hinge by John Dickson Carr (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		But just as the schoolmaster is examining the fingerprints of both John Farnleighs, the present baronet falls dead in the garden of the mansion in full sight of several witnesses; and in the midst of the hubbub, the booklet of fingerprints is stolen.
		Dr. Gideon Fell and a Scotland Yard man are swiftly called in to determine whether the crime was suicide or murder, and which claimant was the real John Farnleigh; but they also find disturbing hints of fl magic and evil goings-on in the neighborhood.
		And the final revelation that solves the case is truly a shocker, bringing the curtain down with a bang on Gideon Fell's greatest case.
	www.mysteryguide.com /bkCarrHinge.html (490 words)

	On Dr Fell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		And few literary figures of the 1930s were as gigantic (in either sense) and recognizable as G.K.Chesterton, from whom Carr borrowed Fell's appearance, mannerisms, and fondness for beer.
		The plots are full of high melodrama, seeming impossibilities and eerie background lore, such as the European vampire legends which darken the atmosphere of The Hollow Man (1935) and He Who Whispers (1946), or the smoky pall of witchcraft in The Crooked Hinge (1938)...
		Fell's lecture openly lists the category and subcategory of deception into which both puzzles fall, while Carr's misdirecting hand ensures that even as it's pushed under your nose, you fail to see it.
	www.davidlangford.co.uk /writing/dr_fell.html (617 words)

	The Blind Barber (A Dr. Gideon Fell Mystery) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		I also believe that the true crime is putting Gideon Fell in maybe 5% of a Gideon Fell mystery.
		This story seems like it was to never actually meant to be a Fell mystery and his character was tacked on when perhaps it was thought that this book would not pass muster on its own.
		This one is surely one of the most entertaining Fell mystery.It is a memorable mix between a hilarous comedy set on a ship and a good whodunit.
	www.textkit.com /0_0060810386.html (638 words)

	Amazon API Demo - Books - The Mad Hatter Mystery (Dr. Gideon Fell Mystery) - Chris Codes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Called in to investigate the theft of a rare manuscript from collector Sir William Bitton, larger-than-life detective Dr. Gideon Fell is greatly amused to find London agog over "The Mad Hatter"--a prankster who steals the hats of the rich and famous from their very heads.
		Dr. Fell's tics and grotesqueries aren't as intrusive as in some of Carr's other mysteries starring his massive, eccentrically-dressed detective.
		Supposedly modeled after Carr's idol, G.K. Chesterton, Dr. Fell also resembles a jovial Father Christmas or a President Chester A. Arthur, resting comfortably after a vast meal that was consumed with countless pints of beer.
	www.chriscodes.com /store/detail/books/related_result/Book/0060809973 (653 words)

	British Golden Age Authors
		Fell discovers the truth behind the legends after Martin Starberth is murdered.
		He wrote about fictional forensic techniques that later became reality and was a pioneer of the inverted tale.
		Detective: Dr. Thorndyke, a doctor and a lawyer--a medico-legal detective--who uses forensic science (much of it dreamed up by Freeman but later similar techniques came to be used) to solve crimes.
	www.pages.drexel.edu /~stb27/gadficauthors.htm (1269 words)

	Amazon.com: Death-Watch (A Dr. Gideon Fell Mystery): Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The story concerns the discovery of a presumably homeless man who appears to have stumbled into a respectable boarding house--only to be stabbed through the neck with the minute hand of a enormous clock.
		Hadley is something of a straight man, and a foil for Dr. Fell.
		Dr. Fell, to the contrary, is highly intuitive and strikes deductions that at times rise to brilliance.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0060810408?v=glance (852 words)

	A History of the Classic Whodunit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Freeman's innovation was the scientific detective, Dr. Thorndyke, who appeared in stories based on scrupulously researched facts and methods.
		The first volume of Carr's series featuring Dr. Gideon Fell, each of which centers on the locked-room puzzles that were this author's trademark.
		The first of 32 novels in the "aristocop" genre, and an early example of the "murder during a murder party" plot.
	www.mysteryguide.com /hist-whodunit.html (638 words)

	Dr. Gideon Fell
		Chesterton, author of the Father Brown stories, Dr. Gideon Fell is an odd-looking character with a round belly and a monocle.
		Rampole, his Watson, is an American living in England (as was the author Carr).
		Fell's methods are similar to Holmes' in that he wanders through the scene of the crime, seeing what others miss until the startling revelation so typical of the Mystery genre at the end.
	occultdetective.tripod.com /fell.htm (139 words)

	The Ministry of Miracles
		“When we see the silhouette of Dr. Fell on the jacket of a book we are sure of an ingenious plot, some hair-raising horror and just that tincture of something rich and strange that takes a book out of the region of the commonplace and transports the reader into a queer world.
		John Dickson Carr (alias Carter Dickson, alias Carr Dickson, alias Roger Fairbairn) was perhaps the greatest deviser of murderous plots, of titanic misdirection, of surprising villains, of impossible murders, of supernatural atmospheres, of frightening and fantastic characters, and of high comedy cheek-by-jowl with passages of spine-chilling terror.
		His series detectives were the Chestertonian Dr. Gideon Fell; the loud and irascible Sir Henry Merrivale, based on Mycroft Holmes with a dash of Winston Churchill; and the Satanic Henri Bencolin.
	www.geocities.com /hacklehorn/carr (363 words)

	John Dickson Carr -Bibliography (at Mohan's Lair) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Fell himself doesn't quite dominate the scene as he does in his later appearances.
		Fell is at his sober, well behaved form without any attacks of childishness or boorish behaviour.
		Gideon Fell had been invited to inspect the material but ends up inspecting the material put to use in a baffling murder.
	www.scifi.demon.co.uk /carr-books1.htm (1720 words)

	Epinions.com - Of Course You Should Buy Used Books...and Here's Some to Look For! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		His two most famous series detectives are Dr. Gideon Fell and Sir Henry Merrivale, both fat late-middle-aged British eccentrics-the former, in fact is a loving takeoff on G. Chesterton, or possibly G. channeling Samuel Johnson.
		His most frequently reprinted works are the Dr. Syn novels, about an eighteenth century pirate-turned-parson (he's a doctor of divinity) who runs a lively smuggling business by disguising his subordinates as ghosts and himself as the quasi-demonic Scarecrow of Romney Marsh.
		Most of his books (excluding the first Dr. Syn) are way, way out of print, so if you find them at a reasonable price, they're certainly worth investing in-even if you don't like them, you can easily get ten, fifteen buck for 'em on ebay.
	www.epinions.com /content_1812308100 (1904 words)

	JOHN DICKSON CARR -- CARTER DICKSON (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		(Dr. Fell is first described as a 'lexicographer'; he is a professor, who doesn't profess, at least in the books.
		Collier had a lot of Dr. Fells out for several years, but that imprint seems to have been swallowed up by some conglomerate.
		Beware of falling into the kind of trap where Dr Fell says 'no woman could have fired that pistol' and it turns out the murderer is a woman who fired a rifle (you are meant to assume the killer is a man).
	www.mysterylist.com /carr.htm (4083 words)

	LitWeb.net
		Gideon Fell, Miles knew, was an utterly kind-hearted, utterly honest, completely absent-minded and scatter-brained man whose best hits occurred half through absent-mindedness."
		J.D. Carr was born in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, as a son of Julia M. (Kisinger) Carr and Wooda Nicholas Carr, a Pennsylvania lawyer, who served a term in Congress.
		The Fell stories include what are considered Carr's masterpieces of the locked-room genre: The Three Coffins, which also has Fell's lecture on the subject, and The Crooked Hinge - See also: Edmund Crispin.
	www.biblion.com /litweb/biogs/carr_john_dickson.html (1230 words)

	Book Review
		There are no footprints other than his own and some others demonstrated to have been made long after the murder around his body.
		Dr. Gideon Fell has to figure out not only who the murderer is, but how it was done as well.
		When the boyfriend, who is an acrobat, is shot in a theatre after it is suspected that he has photographs of the murder, Fell has a second killing to solve.
	www.allreaders.com /BookRView.asp?BRID=100602 (194 words)

	The Three Coffins / The Hollow Man heresy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		That, of course, means that the noted locked-room lecture becomes irrelevant to the whole story except as a distraction from the solution.
		As you would expect from that comment, none of the classified types of hermetically sealed rooms Dr Fell expounds applies categorically to the solution of this story, since nobody, it turns out, was actually killed in that room.
		: Dr Fell did a lot of huffing and puffing, but he never farted, and that's probably only because Carr was writing before that kind of thing could be expressed in print).
	members.aol.com /grobius/hollow.htm (965 words)

	Amazon.com: The Eight of Swords: Books: John Dickson Carr (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Carr's serial detective, the humungous Dr. Gideon Fell, galumphs into view disguised as the Viennese psychiatrist, Dr. Sigismund Von Hornswoggle.
		The deceased was discovered with a tarot card clutched in his hand: the Eight of Swords, a minor arcana, which symbolizes (according to Fell) Condemning Justice.
		The eccentric Bishop of Mapleham, his errant son, and Dr. Fell pile into Colonel Standish's tonneau (this book was first published in 1934) and set off for Gloucestershire to investigate the mystery surrounding the dead man.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0821736493?v=glance (665 words)

	Review The Crooked Hinge/a Dr. Gideon Fell Mystery - Computer Toaster (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		This mystery stars John Dickson Carr's gargantuan, shovel-hatted detective, Dr. Gideon Fell and takes place in England between the world wars.
		All of the characters act suspiciously, including the true and false heir to the extensive Farnleigh estate (and the title that goes with it), their two lawyers, the butler, Lady Farnleigh, and assorted family friends.
		The reader has many reasons to suspect each character in turn after the murder (or was it suicide?) of one of the two competing heirs.
	computertoaster.com /reviews/asinsearch_0060809809 (101 words)

	detectives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Modelled after Carr's idol, G.K. Chesterton, Dr. Fell is vast and beaming, wears a box-pleated cape and a shovel hat, consumes countless pints of beer and smokes a meerschaum pipe.
		Originally introduced as a Lexicographer (Hag's Nook, 1933), Dr. Fell was soon revealed as a historian with a wide knowledge of the bizarre and the occult, the esoteric and the wild.
		He is kind hearted with a childlike exuberance but has the keenest eye for twisted murder plots and impossible crimes.Striding through many a chilling crime, Dr. Fell appeared in twenty-three novels culminating in the Dark of the Moon, 1967.
	www.scifi.demon.co.uk /detectives.htm (917 words)

	Hag's Nook (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		This decayed structure is better known as Hag's Nook, from the old gallows, and was the setting of John Dickson Carr's first Dr Gideon Fell mystery novel (Hag's Nook, Harper © 1933 John Dickson Carr).
		The interior furnishings, worn as they are, survive, and there was an attempt to consolidate the structure, remove the ivy, etc. shortly after the publication of the book.
		Dr Fell's old cottage still remains within a few hundred yards of the prison, although it has not belonged to that family for many years.
	www.marshmount.com /hag.htm (718 words)

	Stories, Listed by Author
		A shorter version without Dr. Fell was broadcast on the CBS Suspense program and later printed in EQMM Sep '46.
		Guest in the House *[Dr. Gideon Fell]**, (ss) The Strand Oct '40; also as "The Incautious Burglar".
		The Incautious Burglar ["Guest in the House"; Dr. Gideon* Fell], (ss) The Strand Oct '40
	contento.best.vwh.net /mags/s18.html (1490 words)

	John Dickson Carr Detectives (and 'Watsons') (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		You can enter your keyword as a "wild card" and any detective or author with an element containing that string of data will be listed.
		Fell, Gideon, retired; formerly schoolmaster, journalist, and historian;
		It is not intended to list JDC's best characters (murderers and otherwise), although if that strikes you as a good idea, please suggest it on the Bulletin Board.
	www.mysterylist.com /carrclub/detect.php3 (391 words)

	Gideon Fell -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Gideon Fell -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		Doctor Gideon Fell is a (additional info and facts about fictional) fictional detective created by (additional info and facts about John Dickson Carr) John Dickson Carr.
		Mystery Guild Book Club offers discount mystery books including murder mysteries, detective fiction, thriller books, crime novels and true crime books from best selling mystery authors
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/G/Gi/Gideon_Fell.htm (259 words)

	ODU PROFESSOR UNLOCKS MYSTERY MASTER'S LIFE STORY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		There he went on to create two of the most important detectives of the Golden Age of mystery fiction: Dr. Gideon Fell and Sir Henry Merrivale.
		Carr's The Three Coffins (1935), with its memorable lecture by Dr. Fell, is regarded as the finest of all locked-room novels.
		While continuing to write about Fell and Merrivale, the latter under the pseudonym Carter Dickson, Carr also published a number of historical mysteries, all with strong detective elements and atmospheric effects, and an authorized biography of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
	scholar.lib.vt.edu /VA-news/VA-Pilot/issues/1995/vp950423/04180551.htm (612 words)

	Contents Lists (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Fell and Foul Play John Dickson Carr (International Polygonics 1-55882-071-X, Jan ’91 [May ’92], $19.95, 383pp, hc); Collection of 15 stories, nine featuring Dr. Gideon Fell, including two previously unpublished wartime radio plays and the first complete reprinting of “The Third Bullet”.
		Gideon Fell] • ss The Strand Jul ’40; EQMM Nov ’43
		Gideon Fell] • ss The Strand Oct ’40; EQMM Nov ’56
	users.ev1.net /~homeville/msf/t27.htm (3292 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Gideon Fell Mysteries: BBC Radio 4 Full-cast Drmatisation. Starring Donald Sinden, John Hartley & ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Amazon.co.uk: Gideon Fell Mysteries: BBC Radio 4 Full-cast Drmatisation.
		In "The Hollow Man", two murders are committed by someone who, it seems, is both invisible and lighter than air.
		I had never heard of John Dickson Carr or The Gideon Fell Mysteries but I have always been impressed by other radio 4 dramatisations particularly the Poirot and Marple stories so I decided to give these a go.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0563382864 (483 words)

	BBC Radio 4's series "The Radio Detectives"
		A look at how Harley Street psychiatrist-turned-detective Dr Morelle uses psychology as well as criminology to solve cases.
		Created specifically for radio, PC 49 is an ordinary bobby on the beat, solving crime in the late 40s and early 50s.
		A look at Dr Gideon Fell, an archetypal English eccentric created by American-born John Dickson Carr.
	www.geocities.com /gregorym101/RadioDetectives.html (899 words)

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