Best Impossible Crime
The Hollow Man is a 1935 detective novel by John Dickson Carr, published in the United States as The Three Coffins. It features the scholar and amateur investigator Dr. Gideon Fell confronting two apparently impossible murders involving sealed or closely observed locations. The novel is especially n...
The Crooked Hinge is a 1938 detective novel by John Dickson Carr featuring Dr. Gideon Fell. Set around an English country estate, its plot concerns two men who each claim to be the rightful heir and survivor of the sinking of the Titanic, followed by a seemingly impossible murder. The novel combines...
The Man Who Could Not Shudder is a 1940 detective novel by John Dickson Carr featuring Dr. Gideon Fell. Its mystery unfolds at a reputedly haunted English house where furniture appears to move without human assistance and a gun seemingly fires by itself, killing a guest. Carr combines supernatural a...
