John Dickson Carr
Biography
John Dickson Carr (1906–1977) was an American author of detective stories, who also published under the pen names Carter Dickson, Carr Dickson and Roger Fairbairn.
Carr is generally regarded as one of the greatest writers of so-called "Golden Age" mysteries, complex, plot-driven stories in which the puzzle is paramount. He was influenced in this regard by the works of Gaston Leroux and by the Father Brown stories of G. K. Chesterton. He was a master of the locked room mystery, in which a detective solves apparently impossible crimes.
Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
- The Locked Room (March 1999)
Hitchcock Fiction Anthologies
- "The Hangman Won't Wait" in Alfred Hitchcock's Fireside Book of Suspense Stories (1947)
- "The Other Hangman" in Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories Not for the Nervous (1965)
- "The Footprint in the Sky" in Alfred Hitchcock's Daring Detectives (1969)
