Dr. Gideon Fell series

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The Dr. Gideon Fell series is a collection of classic Golden Age detective novels by John Dickson Carr, featuring the eccentric, scholarly sleuth Dr. Gideon Fell solving intricate locked-room and impossible-crime mysteries.

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instanceOf Golden Age detective fiction
detective fiction series
novel series
author John Dickson Carr
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
criticalReputation classic of locked-room mystery form
featuresCharacter Dr. Gideon Fell
firstAppearance Hag’s Nook
firstPublicationYear 1933
genre detective fiction
mystery fiction
hasWork Below Suspicion
Dark of the Moon
Death Turns the Tables
Death-Watch
Fell and Foul Play
Hag’s Nook
He Who Whispers
In Spite of Thunder
The Blind Barber
The Case of the Constant Suicides
The Crooked Hinge
The Dead Man’s Knock
The Demoniacs
The Eight of Swords
linked to: Eight of Swords

The Ghost’s High Noon
The Hollow Man
The House at Satan’s Elbow
The Mad Hatter Mystery
The Man Who Could Not Shudder
The Problem of the Green Capsule
The Red Widow Murders
The Sleeping Sphinx
Till Death Do Us Part
To Wake the Dead
influenced later impossible-crime writers
language English
literaryPeriod Golden Age of Detective Fiction
mainCharacterOccupation criminologist
scholar
mainDetectiveDescription eccentric and scholarly sleuth
narrativeFocus puzzle-plot mysteries
notableFor complex fair-play clueing
elaborate locked-room solutions
publisher Hamish Hamilton
William Morrow and Company
setting primarily England
subgenre impossible crime fiction
locked-room mystery
timePeriodOfStories 20th century

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Collins Crime Club notableSeriesPublished Dr. Gideon Fell series