The Christmas Card Crime: and Other Stories (British Library Crime Classics) by Martin Edwards

Author:Martin Edwards [Edwards, Martin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Crime, Winter, snow, mystery, festive, holiday, classic, cozy, fireside, golden age, whodunit, police, detective
Publisher: British Library Publishing
Published: 2018-10-10T05:00:00+00:00

‌Blind Man’s Hood

‌Carter Dickson

Carter Dickson was a pen-name of John Dickson Carr (1906–1977), widely regarded as the most gifted of all exponents of the locked room mystery. A native of Pennsylvania, he relocated to Britain after marrying a young Englishwoman, and launched a career as a detective novelist with a taste for the baroque. His first Great Detective, the French examining magistrate Henri Bencolin, was succeeded by Dr Gideon Fell, a rumbustious character modelled on G.K. Chesterton, whom Carr much admired. When Carr was elected to membership of the Detection Club, he was thrilled by the prospect that, as Chesterton was the Club’s first President, he would at last meet his hero; sadly, Chesterton’s death meant that this ambition remained unfulfilled.

As Carter Dickson, he wrote primarily about Sir Henry Merrivale, a baronet and (rather improbably) a barrister who shared Fell’s penchant for solving baffling impossible crimes. He also created Colonel March, a senior cop whose exploits were ultimately brought together in a book with a title very much of its time, The Department of Queer Complaints. March was based on Carr’s friend and fellow Detection Club member John Rhode (Major Cecil John Street, who also wrote as Miles Burton and Cecil Waye). A television series, Colonel March of Scotland Yard, ran for twenty-six episodes from 1955–56, with Boris Karloff cast as March and given an eyepatch to wear. This story was inspired by the unsolved Peasenhall murder case of 1902 (Carr was an aficionado of true crime), and first published in the Christmas edition of The Sketch in 1937.

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