2017年10月27日 · When I think about the true sweet spot in John Dickson Carr’s career, it’s 1938-1939. The Crooked Hinge, The Judas Window, The Problem of the Green Capsule, The …

2020年11月27日 · Admittedly I think I would whittle that down to Green for Danger, Death of Jezebel, and Suddenly at His Residence, but man, it feels like a crime to leave out Cat and …

2018年5月23日 · “The big white house sprawled lazily in the sunshine, blue skies burned cloudless down upon green lawns, the air was sweet with the scent of roses and mown grass; …

2024年4月26日 · A 2021 post about The Anthony Boucher Chronicles over at Cross Examining Crime tipped me off to some (now) obscure locked room mysteries that Boucher had reviewed …

2017年5月13日 · The House at Satan’s Elbow, Panic in Box C and Dark of the Moon inexplicably brought Dr. Fell back for an encore after his last appearance, five years previously, in the very …

2017年12月5日 · I should have known better than to second guess the strength of a JDC mystery published one year after The Reader is Warned, The Problem of the Green Capsule, and The …

2017年6月15日 · Pingback: Rating John Dickson Carr – The Middle Ground – The Green Capsule. Noah Stewart says: June 15, 2017 at 1:29 pm. I know what you mean. JDC was …

2018年3月19日 · A note for the curious – early on in The Cavalier’s Cup, Inspector Master receives a call from a character named Herbert Armstrong. This reference would have …

2016年10月14日 · When in doubt, and especially when faced with a catalogue as large as Carr’s, I always go chronologically. It gives you a great sense of how the wuthor developed, grew, and …

2017年4月30日 · Beyond that, my experience doesn’t really pick up until 1938, a period drenched in classics like The Crooked Hinge, The Problem of the Green Capsule, and The Case of the …