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Dark of the moon

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Description: Henry Maynard has arranged for a house party to entertain his daughter, and he's included Dr. Gideon Fell who lectures on "Murderers I Have Met" to join the group in Maynard Hall on the northern shore of James Island.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: [1967]
Call number: 660787
Creator: Carr, John Dickson (1906-1977)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Kim Stanley Robinson, August 2025. From the library of Kim Stanley Robinson.
Dimensions: 22 cm

Death-watch

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A clockmaker is puzzled by the theft of the hands of a monumental new timepiece he is preparing for a member of the nobility. That night, one of the stolen hands is found buried between a policeman’s shoulder blades, stopping his clock for all time. The crime is just peculiar enough to catch the attention of Dr. Gideon Fell, the portly detective whose formidable intellect is the terror of every criminal in London. Working closely with Scotland Yard, he finds that the case turns on the question of why the clock hands were stolen. And learning the answer will put Dr. Fell squarely in the path of a madman with nothing but time on his hands.

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To wake the dead

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When mystery writer Chris Kent finds the body of a woman in his hotel room, he enlists the help of detective Gideon Fell to try to uncover the killer.

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The three coffins

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Dr. Gideon Fell solves two impossible murders in one of the most baffling locked room mysteries ever created. Professor Charles Grimaud is found dead in his study just moments after his housekeeper watched him greet a mysterious visitor and welcome him into the room. Yet no sign of the murderer or murder weapon can be found. The housekeeper saw no one leave through the door and the snow outside the only window remains unblemished. An equally puzzling murder has occurred outside, in the middle of the street: The illusionist Pierre Fley was walking alone in a snow-covered cul-de-sac when witnesses heard someone shout "The second bullet is for you!" followed by a gunshot. He is found dead, with the revolver that killed both Grimaud and himself by his side and no footprints in the surrounding snow but his own. It appears that both murders must have been committed by a specter -- someone not only invisible but lighter than air. But if anyone can find a rational explanation, it is brilliant amateur sleuth Dr. Gideon Fell.

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Panic in box C

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Dr. Fell and his companion on a transatlantic voyage where a mysterious shooting occurs, leading to a murder at a Connecticut theater's dress rehearsal, where the victim is shot in a locked box, seemingly from nowhere.

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Till death do us part : a Dr. Fell detective story

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Crime author Dick Markham is in love again; his fiancée, the mysterious newcomer to the village, Lesley Grant. When Grant accidentally shoots the fortune teller through the side of his tent at the local fair-following a very strange reaction to his predictions-Markham is reluctantly brought into a scheme to expose his betrothed as a suspected serial husband-poisoner. That night the enigmatic fortune teller-and chief accuser-is found dead in an impossible locked-room setup, casting suspicion onto Grant and striking doubt into the heart of her lover. Lured by the scent of the impossible case, Dr. Gideon Fell arrives from London to examine the perplexing evidence and match wits with a meticulous killer at large.

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The Arabian nights murder

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When Scotland Yard detective John Carruthers attends the Wade Museum of Oriental Art, and begins to investigate the interior of one of a series of carriages on exhibit, he is sarcastically told by the night watchman "Watch out when you touch it! There's a dead man inside!" Of course, a dead man tumbles out. The corpse has been stabbed with an elaborate Persian dagger, is wearing an obvious set of false whiskers, and is clutching a cookbook. Gideon Fell must investigate the death and explain all the bizarre circumstances of what was a very busy night at the museum.

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