Death-Watch eBook

John Dickson Carr was born in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, on November 30, 1906. After finishing high school, he left America to travel around the European continent, eventually settling in England in 1931. Of the more than one hundred novels he published, the crimes solved by Dr. Gideon Fell, an eccentric lexicographer debuted in The Enigma of the Iron Virgin (1933) and protagonist of the acclaimed The Three Coffins (1935), stand out. Under the pseudonym Carter Dickson, he also wrote The Crimes of the Red Widow (1935) and The Killer Arrow (1938), among more than two dozen titles. One of the central names of the Gilded Age of detective novels, Dickson Carr is consensually considered the "master of closed-room mysteries". He died of lung cancer on February 27, 1977.