They raised three children there before moving to the United States in 1948. While studying abroad he married an Englishwoman, Clarice Cleaves, in 1931 and settled in England.
He attended Hill School, where he was a mediocre student preoccupied with fledgling attempts at writing mystery stories. Gideon Fell, on Chesterton.Ĭarr was born in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, the son of a sometime Democratic Congressman. Carr modeled his major detective, the fat and genial lexicographer Dr. He was influenced in this regard by the works of Gaston Leroux and by the Father Brown stories of GK Chesterton. Most of his many novels and short stories feature the elucidation, by an eccentric detective, of apparently impossible, and seemingly supernatural, crimes. He 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.
John Dickson Carr (November 30, 1906-February 27, 1977) was a prolific American-born author of detective stories who also published under the pen names Carter Dickson, Carr Dickson, and Roger Fairbairn.
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