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Dr. Fell, Detective, and Other Stories

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Language
  
English

Publication date
  
1947

Author
  
John Dickson Carr

Country
  
United Kingdom

Series
  
Gideon Fell

Originally published
  
1947

Preceded by
  
The Sleeping Sphinx

Followed by
  
The Skeleton in the Clock

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Publisher
  
Mercury Mystery paperback, New York City

Genres
  
Mystery, Detective fiction, Short story

Similar
  
John Dickson Carr books, Detective fiction books

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

    Dr. Fell, Detective, and Other Stories Wikipedia
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