Four Complete Dr. Fell Mysteries: To Wake the Dead / The Blind Barber / The Crooked Hinge / The Case of the Constant Suicides

Dr. Gideon Fell #4, 8, 9, 13

by John Dickson Carr

Four complete Dr. Fell Mysteries by John Dickson Carr.

Genres: Fiction

660 pages, Hardcover

First published November 23, 1988

About the author

AKA Carter Dickson, Carr Dickson and Roger Fairbairn.

John Dickson Carr was born in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, in 1906. It Walks by Night, his first published detective novel, featuring the Frenchman Henri Bencolin, was published in 1930. Apart from Dr Fell, whose first appearance was in Hag's Nook in 1933, Carr's other series detectives (published under the nom de plume of Carter Dickson) were the barrister Sir Henry Merrivale, who debuted in The Plague Court Murders (1934).

Reviews

[Victor · Rating 4 out of 5]

A solid collection of 4 Dr. Fell novels .Except a weak Blind Barber ,the other 3 are very decent to exceptionally good.While the blind barber starts of the book ,it may leave you disappointed,from then onwards it only gets better and better.Crooked Hinge is very spooky and atmospheric,wake the dead is convoluted but brilliant in its own way ,though not a locked room mystery...And the case of the constant suicides is one of the most rewarding of Carr's books having a great balance between atmosphere, suspense,mystery and romantic comedy.Highly recommended as this seems to be the only Carr collection still available in print.

[Katherine Nelson · Rating 2 out of 5]

Awful. The blind barber being the worst of the four stories.

[Kim · Rating 2 out of 5]

To Wake the Dead
The Blind Barber
The Crooked Hinge
The Case of the Constant Suicides

I'm reading the fourth story first, on the recommendation of librarian Nancy Pearl. At the very least, it's a good title. Several closed-room mysteries all in one story. I kinda figured out how the first two deaths occurred.

I think I'll read the other stories later.