Tag Archives: John Dickson Carr

The Fourth Coffin

Posted on February 28, 2018 by Nalkarj

“…he would tell a story of mediaeval sorcery and, at the end, abruptly explain all the puzzles in the fashion of a detective story.” “This case he was going to talk about was rather special and sensational. … Crime and the … Continue reading →

Posted in John Dickson Carr, Musings, My Stories, Paul Halter, Solutions | Tagged Impossible Crime, John Dickson Carr, solution, The Hollow Man, The Third Gunman, The Three Coffins | 2 Comments

L’incertitude haltérophile

Posted on February 23, 2018 by Nalkarj

Having cluttered everyone else’s blog with my opinions on Paul Halter (sorry, folks!), I thought it would be best if I assembled some of my general thoughts here—this post is coming right after my having finished two Halters, The Lord … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, John Dickson Carr, Paul Halter | Tagged Books, John Dickson Carr, Musings, Mystery, Paul Halter, Review | 17 Comments

Notes for the Curious (Part 2)

Posted on September 1, 2017 by Nalkarj

A more appropriately Carrian title, no? 🙂 First things first: I’ve been investigating whether or not Lady Pamela Hoyt was a real person and have found that, to the knowledge of every historian I know (not many), a history-connected forum, … Continue reading →

Posted in John Dickson Carr, Musings | Tagged Alexandre Dumas père, Cagliostro, epigraphs, folklore, he who whispers, John Dickson Carr, notes for the curious, secret society, sources, the crooked hinge | Leave a comment

Brief Interrupting Mystery

Posted on August 19, 2017 by Nalkarj

I know I promised to do Part 2 of “Notes for the Curious” yesterday; I apologize that I didn’t follow through with it. (I actually got very sick on Thursday and am still recovering now.) Still, my apologies, and I … Continue reading →

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Notes for the Curious

Posted on August 16, 2017 by Nalkarj

Crime and the occult! These were the only hobbies for a man of taste! I just had to start with that. This may seem a strange topic for a post, I know, but John Dickson Carr’s epigraphs and sources have … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, John Dickson Carr, Musings | Tagged Beneath Suspicion, Books, Don Quixote, Dorothy Sayers, Impossible Crime, John Dickson Carr, M.R. James, Margaret Murray, Musings, Mystery, non-dead, Pepys, The Affair of the Poisons, The Burning Court, The Hand of Glory, The Ingoldsby Legends, Thoughts, Witchcraft | 5 Comments

Open Question

Posted on August 1, 2017 by Nalkarj

I do intend soon to post something that’s more than filler, folks, but until then… What books do you know that are comparable to Christie’s And Then There Were None (Ten Little Indians)? On the IMDb v2.0 boards, one poster … Continue reading →

Posted in Filler, Musings | Tagged Agatha Christie, And Then There Were None, Filler, John Dickson Carr, Musings, Open Question, Raven King, Ten Little Indians, The Hollow Man | 2 Comments

New Carrian Author?

Posted on July 21, 2017 by Nalkarj

I’ll try to post the solution to “Death in the Sun” soon, but until then… Has anyone seen this piece of Jon L. Breen’s in the Weekly Standard? Fascinating stuff. http://www.weeklystandard.com/room-for-murder/article/2002994

Posted in Authors, Musings, Reviews | Tagged Books, Death in the Sun, John Dickson Carr, Jon L. Breen, Locked Room Mystery, Mystery, New Authors, The Weekly Standard | 4 Comments

Desert [Not “Dessert”!] Island Books

Posted on June 21, 2017 by Nalkarj

Well, it seems that I haven’t posted anything here except my own fiction for a while–a sincere thank you to everyone who has looked at it and especially to those who have commented!–but I’ll try to remedy that with this … Continue reading →

Posted in Games, Musings | Tagged Blogs, Desert Island, G.K. Chesterton, Game, John Dickson Carr, Musings, Mystery, the unhinged man | 3 Comments

“Murder,” She Spelled Out Real Plain

Posted on June 14, 2016 by Nalkarj

Of the large number of TV detective shows that longtime friends and collaborators William Link and Richard Levinson created, Ellery Queen (1975-1976) and Columbo (1968-1978; 1989-2003) seem (to me) to be the best. Columbo, of course, is the (far) longer running and the better known–and, … Continue reading →

Posted in Capsule Reviews, Musings, Reviews, TV | Tagged Agatha Christie, Columbo, Ellery Queen, Impossible Crime, John Dickson Carr, Murder She Wrote, Musings, TV, Whodunit | Leave a comment

Musings on Queen

Posted on April 14, 2016 by Nalkarj

Finishing Ellery Queen’s The Origin of Evil two days ago and having looked through Francis Nevins’s fascinating if hagiographic overview of the Queen (and Barnaby Ross) books, Royal Bloodline, started me thinking about Queen, recently one of my favorite detective-story writers, and the Queenian worldview. … Continue reading →