*Crime, Spies & Sleaze: We’re continuing to introduce the new layout for our books categories, with an image for each book. This week, we return to our Crime, Spies & Sleaze category and the works of Joh Dickson Carr. I’m often harping on here about the Queens Of Crime, those indomitable (mostly) British women who dominated the crime/detective genre in the Golden Age Of Detective Fiction, roughly between the wars. Well, there was one male writer active at the time who was their equal, and he was an American to boot, although he lived a significant part of his life in England, where most of his tales were set. John Dickson Carr (who also wrote as Carter Dickson) was the master of the locked room mystery, a setter of seemingly impossible puzzles for his recurring cast of detectives. He also wrote many historical mysteries which are equally engaging. We’re now listing which novel features which detective (if a recurring character), as well as which are historical mysteries. Several new additions in this re-working. Featured are a few of my favourites (both UK and US editions); includes The Hollow Man, which is widely regarded as the best locked room mystery ever written. Lots of other stock listed in our catalogue. 
PICTURED: ALL BY JOHN DICKSON CARR
THE EMPEROR’S SNUFF-BOX VG £5 Berkley 1959 1st US PB
THE HOLLOW MAN GD £8 Penguin 1963 3rd UK PB
THE MAD HATTER MYSTERY VG/FN £12 Penguin 1955 2nd UK PB
THE SLEEPING SPHINX VG/FN £12 Bantam 1952 1st US PB
THE WITCH OF THE LOW-TIDE VG/FN £5 Penguin 1964 1st UK PB