FICTION – REISSUE THE CASE OF THE CONSTANT SUICIDES
John Dickson Carr Introduction by Robert J. Harris
ISBN: 9781846974595 Price: £8.99 Format: 198 x 129mm B-pbk Extent: 256pp Rights: World All Languages ePub: 9781788850520 Publication: 07 June 2018 Having lost all his money in hare-brained get-rich-quick schemes, old Angus Campbell has nothing to leave his heirs but the proceeds of his life insurance policies. After he falls to his death from a locked bedchamber in the tower of Shira Castle in the Scottish Highlands, his family gather. They are joined by amateur sleuth Dr Gideon Fell, who tries to solve the mystery. Is it suicide, or is it murder? The Case of the Constant Suicides is a masterfully plotted locked-room mystery from the master of the art. • • • •
First published in 1941, this is a seamless blend of detection, inventive plotting and screwball comedy A classic Dr Gideon Fell mystery set in the Scottish Highlands Dr Gideon Fell was modelled on G.K. Chesterton, the creator of Father Brown John Dickson Carr was regarded as one of the greatest writers of the Golden Age of detective fiction
John Dickson Carr was born in 1906 in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, the son of a lawyer. While at school and college, he wrote ghost, detective and adventure stories. After studying law, he headed to Paris in 1928. Once there, he lost any desire to study law and soon turned to writing crime fiction full-time. His first novel, It Walks by Night, was published in 1930. Two years later, he moved to England with his English wife; thereafter he became a prolific author and became a master of the locked-room mystery. He died in 1977 in South Carolina. 27