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John D. Carr

    30 novembre 1906 – 27 février 1977

    John Dickson Carr fut un maître du genre policier, réputé pour sa fascination pour les mystères en "chambre close" et les énigmes logiques. Son style d'écriture se caractérise par des intrigues complexes et un accent mis sur la déduction intellectuelle, offrant aux lecteurs un puzzle captivant. L'héritage durable de Carr réside dans ses récits astucieusement construits qui défient l'esprit du lecteur. Ses œuvres sont célébrées pour leur ingéniosité et leur capacité à tenir le lecteur en haleine jusqu'à la toute fin.

    John D. Carr
    Bullies and Saints
    A Doubter's Guide to World Religions
    The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes
    La vie Fantastique de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    La chambre ardente
    Club des Masques - 605: La maison de la terreur
    • Voodoo Drums! Dennis's dreams vibrated with their message of death... Suddenly a hand touched his heaving body. He was shocked awake. Beryl West was standing over him. "Bruce has disappeared," she sobbed. Dennis stared at the girl. Her cry echoed in the eerie light of the half-darkened room. An unknown author had written a play about a murderer and sent it to actor Bruce Ransom. Bruce like it, but his friends Beryl West and Dennis Foster thought the ending unreal. To prove that they were wrong, Bruce proceeded to impersonate the killer in real life. Suddenly his part got out of hand. He had rung up the curtain on a scene called Murder!

      Club des Masques - 605: La maison de la terreur
    • Miles Despard, un vieux garcon de cinquante-six ans, a ete enterre dans un caveau scelle au milieu de sa propriete, en presence de dizaines de temoins, a Crispen, aux portes de Philadelphie. Mais voila que des soupcons pesent sur sa mort. Maladie ou empoisonnement ? Pour couper court aux rumeurs et eviter le scandale, son neveu decide d'exhumer le corps et de pratiquer une autopsie. Le caveau est descelle, le cercueil ouvert et... rien ! Le cadavre a disparu. Peu a peu les langues se delient: la femme du gardien pretend avoir vu, la nuit de la mort de Miles, une femme dans sa chambre, conversant avec lui, puis cette derniere serait sortie de la piece en traversant le mur. Il semble bien que l'irrationnel soit au coeur de l'affaire... Traduit de l'anglais (Etats-Unis) par Maurice Bernard Endrebe

      La chambre ardente
    • The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes

      • 338pages
      • 12 heures de lecture
      4,5(33177)Évaluer

      From the son of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and one of America's greatest mystery writers, John Dickson Carr, comes twelve riveting tales based on incidents or elements of the unsolved cases of Sherlock Holmes. The plots are all new, with painstaking attention to the mood, tone, and detail of the original stories. Here is a fascinating volume of mysteries for new Sherlock fans, as well as for those who have read all the classics and crave more!The Adventure of the Seven Clocks The Adventure of the Gold Hunter The Adventure of the Wax Gamblers The Adventure of the Highgate Miracle The Adventure of the Black Baronet The Adventure of the Sealed Room The Adventure of the Foulkes Rath The Adventure of the Abbas Ruby The Adventure of the Dark Angles The Adventure of the Two Women The Adventure of the Depthford Horror The Adventure of the Red Widow

      The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes
    • A Doubter's Guide to World Religions

      • 336pages
      • 12 heures de lecture
      4,4(64)Évaluer

      A Doubter's Guide to World Religions presents each of the world's five major religions and carefully outlines the history, belief systems, and spiritual practices of Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam so that the interested and curious doubters can explore their similarities and differences.

      A Doubter's Guide to World Religions
    • John Dickson gives an honest account of the mixed history of Christianity, the evil and the good. He concedes the Christians’ complicity for centuries of bullying but also shows the myriad ways the beautiful teaching of Christ has enriched our world and the lives of countless individuals.

      Bullies and Saints
    • 4,2(33)Évaluer

      In A Doubter's Guide to the Ten Commandments, bestselling author John Dickson explores how these ten ancient instructions have changed our world and how they show us what the Good Life looks like. Whether or not one quite believes in the Bible, these ten ancient instructions open up a window to the Western world and on our own soul.

      A Doubter's Guide to the Ten Commandments
    • Carr considered this novel one of his best works, and it is easy to see why when experiencing its ingenious plot delivered with an astounding pace and masterfully drawn characters including none other than the great detective Dr. Gideon Fell.

      He Who Whispers