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 NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
criticalReputation classic of locked-room mystery form
featuresCharacter Dr. Gideon Fell NERFINISHED
firstAppearance Hag’s Nook NERFINISHED
firstPublicationYear 1933
genre detective fiction
mystery fiction
hasWork Below Suspicion NERFINISHED
Dark of the Moon NERFINISHED
Death Turns the Tables NERFINISHED
Death-Watch NERFINISHED
Fell and Foul Play NERFINISHED
Hag’s Nook NERFINISHED
He Who Whispers NERFINISHED
In Spite of Thunder NERFINISHED
The Blind Barber NERFINISHED
The Case of the Constant Suicides NERFINISHED
The Crooked Hinge NERFINISHED
The Dead Man’s Knock NERFINISHED
The Demoniacs NERFINISHED
The Eight of Swords NERFINISHED
The Ghost’s High Noon NERFINISHED
The Hollow Man NERFINISHED
The House at Satan’s Elbow NERFINISHED
The Mad Hatter Mystery NERFINISHED
The Man Who Could Not Shudder NERFINISHED
The Problem of the Green Capsule NERFINISHED
The Red Widow Murders NERFINISHED
The Sleeping Sphinx NERFINISHED
Till Death Do Us Part NERFINISHED
To Wake the Dead NERFINISHED
influenced later impossible-crime writers
language English
literaryPeriod Golden Age of Detective Fiction NERFINISHED
mainCharacterOccupation criminologist
scholar
mainDetectiveDescription eccentric and scholarly sleuth
narrativeFocus puzzle-plot mysteries
notableFor complex fair-play clueing
elaborate locked-room solutions
publisher Hamish Hamilton NERFINISHED
William Morrow and Company NERFINISHED
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