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John Dickson Carr, né le 30 novembre 1906 à Uniontown, en Pennsylvanie, et mort le 27 février 1977 à Charlottesville, en Virginie, est un écrivain américain de roman policier. Agatha Christie se disait « presque toujours piégée » par l'ingéniosité de ses intrigues.

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John Dickson Carr

Le Masque

2015-01-07

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Un soir d’hiver, tandis que le Professeur Charles Grimaud se trouve dans un pub avec des amis, un mystérieux inconnu les interrompt et affirme avoir vu des cadavres sortir de leurs tombes et traverser des murs.Quelques jours plus tard, alors qu’il se...

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Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Feuilleter La Chambre ardente John Dickson Carr Miles Despard, un vieux garçon de cinquante-six ans, a été enterré dans un caveau scellé au milieu de sa propriété, en présence de dizaines de témoins, à Crispen, aux portes de Philadelphie. Mais voilà que des soupçons pèsent sur sa mort. Maladie ou empoisonnement ?... Editeur : Le Masque Parution : 2014-01-15 Collection : Masque Poche ePub 5,49 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Fire, Burn! John Dickson Carr One October night in the middle of the twentieth century Detective Inspector John Cheviot got into a taxi, bound for New Scotland Yard. When he stepped out it was from a horse-drawn cab, the year was 1829, and a beautiful woman was beckoning him in front of Old Scotland... Editeur : The Murder Room Parution : 2013-12-19 Collection : Murder Room ePub 3,99 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Scandal at High Chimneys John Dickson Carr Matthew Damon was a loving father and a figure of moral rectitude. Why, then, has a rumour of scandal followed him, denying him the knighthood he thought he had earned? Why had he, long ago, repeatedly and alone visited the cells of condemned young women?Behind the... Editeur : The Murder Room Parution : 2013-12-19 Collection : Murder Room ePub 6,49 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The Bride of Newgate John Dickson Carr Dick Darwent brooded in a dark cell of Newgate Prison - waiting to be hanged. Lady Caroline Ross, rich, cold and beautiful, prepared a champagne breakfast to celebrate her marriage. How were the fates of these two people intertwined? And how were their lives changed by... Editeur : The Murder Room Parution : 2013-12-19 Collection : Murder Room ePub 6,49 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The Witch of the Low Tide John Dickson Carr Lady Betty Calder is a prostitute and a blackmailer - or is it her sister, Glynis, using her name? Dr David Garth, her fiancé, knows he must find out the truth - especially when he blunders across Glynis' strangled body on Betty's property.The police know she did it,... Editeur : The Murder Room Parution : 2013-12-19 Collection : Murder Room ePub 6,49 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The Demoniacs John Dickson Carr A chilling Gothic tale of warped passion and bizarre murder by the master of the historical whodunit.Two women: one a vile old bawd, dead, it seemed, of fright; the other, Peg, a headstrong, ravishing young heiress. Their lives are linked by a mysterious portrait and a... Editeur : The Murder Room Parution : 2013-12-19 Collection : Murder Room ePub 3,49 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Deadly Hall John Dickson Carr It's 1927 and New Orleans-born novelist Jeff Caldwell is called back to that most colourful of American cities by a frantic letter from Dave Hobart, a boyhood friend.Dave owns a fabulous and foreboding 16th-century English manor house moved from England to New Orleans... Editeur : The Murder Room Parution : 2013-12-19 Collection : Murder Room ePub 3,49 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Most Secret John Dickson Carr Young Roderick Kinsmere was a country bumpkin when he strolled into the Great Court of Charles II's Whitehall Palace. Three days later he had lost his fortune, gained a wife, fought for - and been outwitted by - his king, and no one would ever call Rowdy Kinsmere a... Editeur : The Murder Room Parution : 2013-12-19 Collection : Murder Room ePub 6,49 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The Emperor's Snuff-Box John Dickson Carr The scene is a fashionable French seaside resort; the witness, Eve Neill, is looking out of her window in the early hours of the morning when she sees the battered body of her prospective father-in-law in the room opposite.By Eve's side is her ex-husband, who has... Editeur : The Murder Room Parution : 2013-12-19 Collection : Murder Room ePub 6,49 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The Ghosts' High Noon John Dickson Carr Jim Blake, journalist and successful spy novelist, is sent to New Orleans to do a story on James Claiborne Blake, a congressional hopeful in the 1912 election. But even from New York he senses following eyes. James Blake, it seems, is threatened by sexual indiscretions.... Editeur : The Murder Room Parution : 2013-12-19 Collection : Murder Room ePub 3,99 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The Hollow Man John Dickson Carr The most famous of all locked-room mysteries - a classic in the crime genre.'The first deadly walking of the hollow man took place when the side streets of London were quiet with snow and the three coffins of the prophecy were filled at last...'The murderer of Dr... Editeur : Orion Parution : 2012-11-29 ePub 3,99 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies To Wake The Dead John Dickson Carr Christopher Kent, worth a quarter of a million pounds yet without a penny in his pocket, stands hungrily in Piccadilly one snowy morning, looking up at the huge hotel, when a piece of card bearing a number floats down to him. He enters and is served with breakfast,... Editeur : The Murder Room Parution : 2012-11-19 Collection : Dr Gideon Fell ePub 3,99 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies In Spite of Thunder John Dickson Carr On his return to Geneva, Brian Innes must meet Audrey Page and find a way to prevent her from joining the strangely temperamental group of people gathered around film star Eve Eden at the Villa Rosalind. With characteristic stubbornness, if not trusting naivety, she... Editeur : The Murder Room Parution : 2012-11-19 Collection : Dr Gideon Fell ePub 3,99 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Death-Watch John Dickson Carr In the shadowy hallway of clockmaker Johannes Carver's house a policeman is found murdered, the arrow-tipped minute hand of an antique clock embedded in his neck.For Dr Gideon Fell this is the only case that has ever really frightened him, and before he can solve it he... Editeur : The Murder Room Parution : 2012-11-19 Collection : Dr Gideon Fell ePub 3,99 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The Man Who Could Not Shudder John Dickson Carr Three guests at Martin Clarke's weekend party swore they saw the pistol lifted from the wall, levelled and shot. Yet no hand held it. It couldn't have happened ... but there was a dead body on the floor to prove that it had.For the victim, it was far too late for a... Editeur : The Murder Room Parution : 2012-11-19 Collection : Dr Gideon Fell ePub 3,99 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The Four False Weapons John Dickson Carr It is no ordinary murder case that brings the famed French detective Monsieur Bencolin out of retirement, but one that involves a midnight rendezvous on a steamy Paris night, a broken love affair, and four different murder weapons found in the secret villa where the... Editeur : The Murder Room Parution : 2012-11-19 Collection : Henri Bencolin ePub 3,99 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The Blind Barber John Dickson Carr A thief is loose aboard HMS Queen Victoria, and four amateur detectives are hell-bent on tracking him down. Unprepared for the evidence that their sleuthing activities will uncover - a reel of compromising film, a blood-soaked stateroom bunk, a lethally sharp razor and... Editeur : The Murder Room Parution : 2012-11-19 Collection : Dr Gideon Fell ePub 3,99 €

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