The Dead Sleep Lightly and Other Mysteries from Radio's Golden Age
by John Dickson Carr
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The radio melodrama might well have been Dickson Carr's true metier. It gave him the opportunity to exercise his considerable ingenuity, while forcing him to get to the point and denying him the scope to over-complicate things. And even Gideon Fell can be amusing for 20 minutes. Not all of these playlets are of equal quality, though, the first two being by far the best.
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John Dickson Carr, the master of locked room mysteries, was born in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, in 1906. He was educated at Haverford College and the Sorbonne in Paris. Carr is a prolific writer with more than 80 novels and collections of short stories to his credit. He began his writing career at the age of 26 with his first published novel, It show more Walks At Night. Some of his most popular works are The Three Coffins (1935), The Burning Coat (1937), and The Bride of Newgate (1951). Carr also collaborated with Adrian Doyle, the son of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes (1954). Carr met his wife in 1932 and settled in England in 1933. He was drafted by the United States military in World War II, and was ordered to remain in England and work with the BBC. He lived in many cities throughout the world until 1967, when he permanently moved to Greenville, South Carolina. John Dickson Carr also wrote mystery novels under the name Carter Dickson. He died in Greenville in 1977. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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