Dr. Fell, Detective, and Other Stories

Dr. Fell, Detective, and Other Stories
1st edition
Author(s)	John Dickson Carr
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Series	Gideon Fell
Genre(s)	Mystery, Detective novel, Short story
Publisher	Mercury Mystery paperback, New York City
Publication date	1947
Preceded by	The Sleeping Sphinx
Followed by	The Skeleton in the Clock

Dr. Fell, Detective, and Other Stories', is a mystery short story collection written by John Dickson Carr and first published in the US by Lawrence E. Spivak (The American Mercury) in 1947.

Most of the stories feature his series detective Gideon Fell.

Stories and first publications

Dr. Gideon Fell:

• The Proverbial Murder: first published in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine in July 1943, as "The Proverbial Murderer".
• The Locked Room: first published in Strand Magazine in July 1940.
• The Wrong Problem
• The Hangman Won't Wait
• A Guest in the House (a shortened and altered version of Death and the Gilded Man)

Others:

• The Devil in the Summer House
• Will You Walk Into My Parlor?
• Strictly Diplomatic

References

• Page for this collection on Russian J. D. Carr and "locked room" murders website

Gideon Fell series

Novels	Hag's Nook (1933) · The Mad Hatter Mystery (1933) · The Blind Barber (1934) · The Eight of Swords (1934) · Death-Watch (1935) · The Hollow Man (1935) · The Arabian Nights Murder (1936) · To Wake the Dead (1938) · The Crooked Hinge (1938) · The Black Spectacles (1939) · The Problem of the Wire Cage (1939) · The Man Who Could Not Shudder (1940) · The Case of the Constant Suicides (1941) · Death Turns the Tables (1941) · Till Death Do Us Part (1944) · He Who Whispers (1946) · The Sleeping Sphinx (1947) · Below Suspicion (1949) · The Dead Man's Knock (1958) · In Spite of Thunder (1960) · The House at Satan's Elbow (1965) · Panic in Box C (1966) · Dark of the Moon (1968)
Short story collections	Dr. Fell, Detective, and Other Stories (1947) · The Men Who Explained Miracles (1963) · Fell and Foul Play (1991)

The Henri Bencolin series

Novels	It Walks By Night (1930)  • Castle Skull (1931)  • The Lost Gallows (1931)  • The Waxworks Murder (1932)  • The Four False Weapons (1937)
Short stories	"The Shadow of the Goat"  • "The Fourth Suspect"  • "The End of Justice"  • "Murder In Number Four"

Other novels

As John Dickson Carr	Poison In Jest (1932)  • The Burning Court (1937)  • The Emperor's Snuff-Box (1942)  • The Bride of Newgate (1950)  • The Devil in Velvet (1951)  • The Nine Wrong Answers (1952)  • Captain Cut-Throat (1955)  • Patrick Butler for the Defense (1956)  • Fire, Burn! (1957)  • Scandal at High Chimneys: A Victorian Melodrama (1959)  • The Witch of the Low Tide: An Edwardian Melodrama (1961)  • The Demoniacs (1962)  • Most Secret (1964)  • Papa La-Bas (1968)  • The Ghosts' High Noon (1970)  • Deadly Hall (1971)  • The Hungry Goblin: A Victorian Detective Novel (1972)
As Carter Dickson	The Bowstring Murders (1934)  • Fear Is the Same (1956)