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  Gideon Fell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Doctor Gideon Fell is a fictional detective created by John Dickson Carr.
He is described as a huge, moustached, corpulent man who wears a cape and a shovel hat and walks with the aid of two canes.
Doctor Fell is supposedly based upon a real person -- G.K. Chesterton, who, like Carr, was a master of detective fiction (the Father Brown stories), and whose physical appearance and personality were apparently similar to those of Doctor Fell.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gideon_Fell   (260 words)

  
 Gideon
During an oppression by the Midianites, Gideon, while threshing wheat in the wine press at Ophrah to hide his harvest from the Midianites, was called by an angel of the Lord to deliver Israel.
The Ephraimites, instructed by Gideon to block the escape routes at the Jordan, caught two of the Midianite princes and sent their heads to Gideon.
Gideon refused the people’s offer to make him king, recognising that God was their only king (Jgs 8:22, 23).
www.nisbett.com /people/bp-gideon.htm   (451 words)

  
 GIDEON SMITH & THE DIXIE DAMNED   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Gideon and company signed a deal with the label and tore into recording what would become their full length debut, "Southern Gentlemen".
Gideon returned from his pilgrimage and presented the band with the fruits of his labors.
Gideon Smith and The Dixie Damned are now ready for the world to grasp their interpretation of swampy southern rock.
smallstone.com /gideon/index.shtml   (392 words)

  
 SAB, Judges 8
Gideon punishes the elders of Succoth with thorns and briars
And Gideon arose, and slew Zebah and Zalmunna, and took away the ornaments that were on their camels' necks.
8:32 And Gideon the son of Joash died in a good old age, and was buried in the sepulchre of Joash his father, in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
www.skepticsannotatedbible.com /jg/8.html   (1153 words)

  
 John Dickson Carr / Carter Dickson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Fell is introduced as a lexicographer -- a compiler of dictionaries -- in this novel, but seems to be a historian in the subsequent stories.
Fell in Hag's Nook, although she appears only fleetingly, but she is never mentioned again.
The novel paints an engaging description of the English countryside seen through the eyes of the story's American narrator and a properly spooky description of the ruined prison that is at the center of the story.
commonplacebook.tripod.com /id9.html   (2197 words)

  
 Codex Unforgiven   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Tyrpheli fell to the ground clutching the stump where his leg once was.
Gideon heard a crunch and the chaplain relaxed his grip.
Gideon closed his eyes and touched the scar on his head.
fortressofunforgiven.homestead.com /CH06_02Lib_008_A.html   (1257 words)

  
 The Case of the Constant Suicides - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Unlike most of the other Dr. Fell novels, this story has a high humour level, reminiscent of the Henry Merrivale works.
Suspicious events soon begin to occur, the body count rises, and a verdict of suicide is not necessarily to be trusted.
Enter the gargantuan Doctor Gideon Fell, who applies his substantial powers of deduction to the problem of how men can be indirectly murdered while they're inside locked, sealed and inaccessible rooms.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Case_of_the_Constant_Suicides   (221 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   (4776 words)

  
 Glossary
Gideon is counted among the major judges although the narrative describing his exploits (Judg.
The story of Gideon is prefaced by the camel-mounted invasions of the Midianites, Amalekites, and ‘children of the East’ who looted the Israelite crops and animals (6:1-6).
One element of Gideon’s religiosity is criticized: his fashioning of an ephod out of the spoil of the golden earrings (cf.
www.bibletexts.com /glossary/gideon.htm   (692 words)

  
 Patron Saints Index: Saint Gideon
So Gideon and the hundred men who were with him came to the edge of the camp at the beginning of the middle watch, just after the posting of the guards.
They held the torches in their left hands, and in their right the horns they were blowing, and cried out, "A sword for the LORD and Gideon!" They all remained standing in place around the camp, while the whole camp fell to running and shouting and fleeing.
At a good old age Gideon, son of Joash, died and was buried in the tomb of his father Joash in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
www.catholic-forum.com /saints/saintg5r.htm   (2481 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Blind Barber (A Dr. Gideon Fell Mystery): Books: John Dickson Carr   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
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.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0060810386?v=glance   (1011 words)

  
 On Dr Fell
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.ansible.co.uk /writing/dr_fell.html   (617 words)

  
 Bruce's Rabbit page
My present rabbit is Gideon, a Himalayan who I adopted from the Edmonton SPCA.
You might be interested to learn that I used him in my music videos which I submitted to Artemiy Artemiev for his TV program Electroshock in Russia.
Gideon does some very funny things like hurling rolled up socks between his hind legs.
gideon.www2.50megs.com /rabbit   (545 words)

  
 John Dickson Carr
But his most popular detective he created was Dr. Gideon Fell who first appeared in Nag’s Crook (1933).
Fell would go on to appear in twenty-three novels and numerous short stories.
Who some argue is a pale imitation of the great man “Dr. Gideon Fell”.
www.topmystery.com /authors/johnCarr.htm   (424 words)

  
 Destruction of a Telepath by The Upholsterer
Gideon's eyes flew back to the woman who was now smiling slightly, a smile which delighted in the destruction of others.
Gideon had broken one of the most sacred laws of EF, and he was going to get away with it, at least for a while, because of the "goddamned public".
Gideon knew that there would be more than one transfer request on his desk in the morning by people who could not overlook his gross indiscretion, but he hoped there would only be a few.
www.ourdramaqueen.com /sw/familiars/Uph-doat.htm   (8155 words)

  
 Golden Age Mysteries - Who would be your perfect Dr. Gideon Fell?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Robbie Coltrane as Dr. Fell sounds like a great idea, as long as Disney doesn’t do it and give him a singing hippogriff as a sidekick.
The trouble with casting someone who looked like Dr Fell would be that the actor would be in grave danger of a heart attack, particularly if he were old.
I'm not sure about Gideon Fell, but John Savident would IMO make a superb HM.
www.jdcarr.com /forum/showthread.php?t=2233   (1252 words)

  
 Fell Family Papers, 1753-1923   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Joseph Fell (1804-1887), the son of Dr. David and Phebe Schofield Fell, was a Pennsylvania Quaker teacher and farmer.
These included the Fell and Williams family letters, 1819-1885, primarily to Harriet Williams before and after her marriage in 1835 to Joseph Fell, and a small amount of family memorabilia and pictures.
These papers were found in the lap desk of Edward Lawrence Fell (1867-1943), a Swarthmore College graduate, class of 1888 and grandson of Joseph and Harriet Fell.
www.swarthmore.edu /library/friends/ead/5039fell.htm   (756 words)

  
 Gideon's Broom Game   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Gideon and I have a new routine for getting him into his cage at night or when I need to leave the house.
We were playing with an old broom one night when Gideon decided to run from it, rather than attack and chew it.
I kept chasing Gideon into his cage with the broom from that night on.
gideon.www2.50megs.com /rabbit/gbroom.html   (296 words)

  
 Mystery Guide - The Crooked Hinge by John Dickson Carr   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
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)

  
 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/index.htm   (363 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Crooked Hinge/a Dr. Gideon Fell Mystery: Books: John Dickson Carr   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
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 is beset with conflicting stories and clues, when Dr. Fell finally lumbers onto the scene with his shovel-hat, swirling cape, and crutch-headed cane.
He figures out who killed whom right away, but the reader is left grasping at hints (some of them pretty darn subtle - I think Carr cheats a little on this mystery) until the final denouement, which involves that fateful night when the 'Titanic' went down.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0060809809?v=glance   (1022 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.
www.gwthomas.org /fell.htm   (150 words)

  
 detectives   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
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)

  
 WWMT - Digital Channel 3
PORTAGE (NEWS 3) — An afternoon of remote control airplane flying nearly turned tragic yesterday on Sugarloaf Lake in Portage when 18-year-old Andrew Gideon fell through the ice as he tried to recover his plane.
Andrew Gideon is recovering from some cuts and bruises.
His friends tried to help by throwing a rope but it fell short.
wwmt.com /engine.pl?station=wwmt&id=21806&template=breakout_local.html   (257 words)

  
 Book the Third: Apocalypse From Babylon – Act VIII   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Gideon: "Well, the Box lead me to those artifacts we picked up on K-518, and said they were valuable weapons to be used against Emperor Lenton.
Gideon’s face shows signs of interest over the last memory he saw, so he tried his best to remember every detail connected with this conversation.
Gideon and the Earth Ambassador were wearing Breathers, which are Oxygen Masks to protect them when they are walking through a poisonous atmosphere.
members.aol.com /sheridanbear/bookthreeact8.html   (4369 words)

  
 JOHN DICKSON CARR -- CARTER DICKSON   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Merrivale and Fell were reassuringly consistent, no matter how eccentric.
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)

  
 Stories, Listed by Author   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Gideon Fell], (ss) The Strand Oct 1940; also as “The Incautious Burglar”.
Gideon Fell], (n.) London: Hodder & Stoughton 1937
Gideon Fell], (pl) Fell and Foul Play, International Polygonics 1991; first broadcast by the BBC in three parts: December 7, 1939, January 7, 1940, and January 14, 1940.
users.ev1.net /~homeville/msf/s31.htm   (1567 words)

  
 Gideon - Leaders and Rulers, Bible Trivia
2.) Gideon threshed wheat by the winepress to:
I am a man of unclean lips and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips.
It was too many men to take on such a long trek with no food.
quiz.christiansunite.com /Leaders_and_Rulers/Gideon.shtml   (321 words)

  
 College Tennis Online: NCAA results, ITA collegiate tennis rankings, and college tennis news
The University of Pennsylvania men’s tennis team fell, 4-3, to Harvard in front of a boisterous crowd at the Lott Tennis Courts on Friday afternoon.
The team of David Lynn and Mikhail Bekker fell to Jonathan Chu and Jordan Bohnen of Harvard, 8-3, in the first position.
Tas Tobias and Anthony Pu fell to Brandon Chiu and Ashwin Kumar, 8-3, at No. 2 and Brandon O’Gara and Todd Lecher fell to Gideon Valkin and Scott Denenberg, 8-6, in the third position.
www.collegetennisonline.com /view/news.aspx?nwId=18139   (273 words)

  
 Golden Age Mysteries - Who would be your perfect Dr. Gideon Fell?
March 29th, 2005 05:57 AM Who would be your perfect Dr. Gideon Fell?
March 29th, 2005 06:32 AM Re: Who would be your perfect Dr. Gideon Fell?
As I recall there are clues to indicate that 22.2 must have taken place before 22.1, but this still bothers me.
www.jdcarr.com /forum/printthread.php?t=2233   (1272 words)

  
 Emily and Gideon Diary 4
of Gideon's men fell sick and he wouldn't leave him.
As we approached Cousin Cecilia's house, I was trembling.
Gideon sat alone in his cell, thinking of Emily and the last time they were together.
www.nicholsevansfans.com /egd4.html   (670 words)

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