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John Dickson Carr Books in Order
Every John Dickson Carr book in publication order — 96 in total, spanning 1930–2020.
Publication Order of Henri Bencolin Books
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  It Walks by Night | 1930 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 |  Castle Skull | 1931 | Amazon US UK |
| 3 |  The Lost Gallows | 1931 | Amazon US UK |
| 4 |  The Corpse in the Waxworks | 1932 | Amazon US UK |
| 5 |  The Four False Weapons | 1937 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of Dr. Gideon Fell Books
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Hag's Nook | 1932 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 |  The Mad Hatter Mystery | 1933 | Amazon US UK |
| 3 |  The Eight of Swords | 1934 | Amazon US UK |
| 4 |  The Blind Barber | 1934 | Amazon US UK |
| 5 |  The Three Coffins | 1935 | Amazon US UK |
| 6 |  The Hollow Man | 1935 | Amazon US UK |
| 7 |  Death-Watch | 1935 | Amazon US UK |
| 8 |  The Arabian Nights Murder | 1936 | Amazon US UK |
| 9 |  The Crooked Hinge | 1937 | Amazon US UK |
| 10 |  To Wake the Dead | 1938 | Amazon US UK |
| 11 |  The Problem of the Green Capsule | 1939 | Amazon US UK |
| 12 |  The Problem of the Wire Cage | 1939 | Amazon US UK |
| 13 |  The Man Who Could Not Shudder | 1940 | Amazon US UK |
| 14 |  The Case of the Constant Suicides | 1941 | Amazon US UK |
| 15 |  Death Turns the Tables | 1941 | Amazon US UK |
| 16 |  Till Death Do Us Part | 1944 | Amazon US UK |
| 17 |  He Who Whispers | 1946 | Amazon US UK |
| 18 |  The Sleeping Sphinx | 1947 | Amazon US UK |
| 19 |  Below Suspicion | 1949 | Amazon US UK |
| 20 |  The Dead Man's Knock | 1958 | Amazon US UK |
| 21 |  In Spite of Thunder | 1960 | Amazon US UK |
| 22 |  The House at Satan's Elbow | 1965 | Amazon US UK |
| 23 |  Panic in Box C | 1966 | Amazon US UK |
| 24 |  Dark of the Moon | 1967 | Amazon US UK |
| 25 |  Seat of the Scornful | 1980 | Amazon US UK |
| 26 |  Fell and Foul Play | 1991 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of Sir Henry Merrivale Books
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  The Plague Court Murders | 1934 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 |  The White Priory Murders | 1934 | Amazon US UK |
| 3 |  The Red Widow Murders | 1935 | Amazon US UK |
| 4 |  The Unicorn Murders | 1935 | Amazon US UK |
| 5 |  The Punch and Judy Murders | 1936 | Amazon US UK |
| 6 |  The Peacock Feather Murders | 1937 | Amazon US UK |
| 7 |  The Ten Teacups | 1937 | Amazon US UK |
| 8 |  The Judas Window | 1938 | Amazon US UK |
| 9 |  Death in Five Boxes | 1938 | Amazon US UK |
| 10 |  The Reader Is Warned | 1939 | Amazon US UK |
| 11 |  Nine and Death Makes Ten | 1940 | Amazon US UK |
| 12 |  Murder in the Submarine Zone | 1940 | Amazon US UK |
| 13 |  And So to Murder | 1940 | Amazon US UK |
| 14 |  Seeing Is Believing | 1941 | Amazon US UK |
| 15 |  The Gilded Man | 1942 | Amazon US UK |
| 16 |  She Died A Lady | 1943 | Amazon US UK |
| 17 |  He Wouldn't Kill Patience | 1944 | Amazon US UK |
| 18 |  The Curse of the Bronze Lamp | 1945 | Amazon US UK |
| 19 |  Lord of the Sorcerers | 1945 | Amazon US UK |
| 20 |  My Late Wives | 1946 | Amazon US UK |
| 21 |  The Skeleton in the Clock | 1948 | Amazon US UK |
| 22 |  A Graveyard to Let | 1949 | Amazon US UK |
| 23 |  Night at the Mocking Widow | 1950 | Amazon US UK |
| 24 |  Behind the Crimson Blind | 1952 | Amazon US UK |
| 25 |  The Cavalier's Cup | 1953 | Amazon US UK |
| 26 |  White Priory Murders | 1967 | Amazon US UK |
| 27 |  Red Widow Murders | 1967 | Amazon US UK |
| 28 |  Merrivale, March and Murder | 1991 | Amazon US UK |
| 29 |  Merrivale Holds the Key | 1995 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of Department D-3 Books
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  The Department of Queer Complaints (As:Carter Dickson) | 1940 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 |  The Men Who Explained Miracles | 1963 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Poison in Jest | 1932 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 |  The Murder of Sir Edmund Godfrey | 1936 | Amazon US UK |
| 3 |  The Burning Court | 1937 | Amazon US UK |
| 4 |  Fatal Descent | 1939 | Amazon US UK |
| 5 |  The Emperor's Snuff-Box | 1942 | Amazon US UK |
| 6 |  The Bride of Newgate | 1950 | Amazon US UK |
| 7 |  The Devil in Velvet | 1951 | Amazon US UK |
| 8 |  The Nine Wrong Answers | 1952 | Amazon US UK |
| 9 |  Captain Cut-Throat | 1955 | Amazon US UK |
| 10 |  365+1 | 1956 | Amazon US UK |
| 11 | Fear Is the Same | 1956 | Amazon US UK |
| 12 |  Fire, Burn! | 1957 | Amazon US UK |
| 13 |  Scandal at High Chimneys | 1959 | Amazon US UK |
| 14 |  The Demoniacs | 1961 | Amazon US UK |
| 15 |  The Witch of the Low Tide | 1961 | Amazon US UK |
| 16 |  Most Secret | 1964 | Amazon US UK |
| 17 |  Papa La-Bas | 1968 | Amazon US UK |
| 18 |  The Ghosts' High Noon | 1969 | Amazon US UK |
| 19 |  Deadly Hall | 1971 | Amazon US UK |
| 20 |  The Hungry Goblin | 1972 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes | 1954 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 |  The New Exploits of Sherlock Holmes | 1954 | Amazon US UK |
| 3 |  The Door To Doom, And Other Detections | 1980 | Amazon US UK |
| 4 |  The Dead Sleep Lightly and Other Mysteries from Radio's Golden Age | 1983 | Amazon US UK |
| 5 |  13 to the Gallows | 2008 | Amazon US UK |
| 6 | The Third Bullet and Other Stories | 2020 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  The Life of Sir Arthur Conan DOyle | 1949 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of John Dickson Carr Omnibus Books
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sleeping Sphinx / Beagle Scented Murder / Death of a Doll | 1948 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 |  Crime on the Coast & No Flowers by Request | 1984 | Amazon US UK |
| 3 |  The Hollow Man & The House in Gallows Lane | 1997 | Amazon US UK |
| 4 |  Locked Rooms: The Three Coffins; To Wake the Dead; The Skeleton in the Clock | 2008 | Amazon US UK |
| 5 |  The John Dickson Carr Companion | 2015 | Amazon US UK |
Publication Order of Anthologies
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  All but Impossible! | 1981 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 |  Deadly Arts | 1985 | Amazon US UK |
Every title by year All 96, oldest to newest
| # | Title | Year | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It Walks by Night | 1930 | Amazon US UK |
| 2 | Castle Skull | 1931 | Amazon US UK |
| 3 | The Lost Gallows | 1931 | Amazon US UK |
| 4 | The Corpse in the Waxworks | 1932 | Amazon US UK |
| 5 | Hag's Nook | 1932 | Amazon US UK |
| 6 | Poison in Jest | 1932 | Amazon US UK |
| 7 | The Mad Hatter Mystery | 1933 | Amazon US UK |
| 8 | The Eight of Swords | 1934 | Amazon US UK |
| 9 | The Blind Barber | 1934 | Amazon US UK |
| 10 | The Plague Court Murders | 1934 | Amazon US UK |
| 11 | The White Priory Murders | 1934 | Amazon US UK |
| 12 | The Three Coffins | 1935 | Amazon US UK |
| 13 | The Hollow Man | 1935 | Amazon US UK |
| 14 | Death-Watch | 1935 | Amazon US UK |
| 15 | The Red Widow Murders | 1935 | Amazon US UK |
| 16 | The Unicorn Murders | 1935 | Amazon US UK |
| 17 | The Arabian Nights Murder | 1936 | Amazon US UK |
| 18 | The Punch and Judy Murders | 1936 | Amazon US UK |
| 19 | The Murder of Sir Edmund Godfrey | 1936 | Amazon US UK |
| 20 | The Four False Weapons | 1937 | Amazon US UK |
| 21 | The Crooked Hinge | 1937 | Amazon US UK |
| 22 | The Peacock Feather Murders | 1937 | Amazon US UK |
| 23 | The Ten Teacups | 1937 | Amazon US UK |
| 24 | The Burning Court | 1937 | Amazon US UK |
| 25 | To Wake the Dead | 1938 | Amazon US UK |
| 26 | The Judas Window | 1938 | Amazon US UK |
| 27 | Death in Five Boxes | 1938 | Amazon US UK |
| 28 | The Problem of the Green Capsule | 1939 | Amazon US UK |
| 29 | The Problem of the Wire Cage | 1939 | Amazon US UK |
| 30 | The Reader Is Warned | 1939 | Amazon US UK |
| 31 | Fatal Descent | 1939 | Amazon US UK |
| 32 | The Man Who Could Not Shudder | 1940 | Amazon US UK |
| 33 | Nine and Death Makes Ten | 1940 | Amazon US UK |
| 34 | Murder in the Submarine Zone | 1940 | Amazon US UK |
| 35 | And So to Murder | 1940 | Amazon US UK |
| 36 | The Department of Queer Complaints (As:Carter Dickson) | 1940 | Amazon US UK |
| 37 | The Case of the Constant Suicides | 1941 | Amazon US UK |
| 38 | Death Turns the Tables | 1941 | Amazon US UK |
| 39 | Seeing Is Believing | 1941 | Amazon US UK |
| 40 | The Gilded Man | 1942 | Amazon US UK |
| 41 | The Emperor's Snuff-Box | 1942 | Amazon US UK |
| 42 | She Died A Lady | 1943 | Amazon US UK |
| 43 | Till Death Do Us Part | 1944 | Amazon US UK |
| 44 | He Wouldn't Kill Patience | 1944 | Amazon US UK |
| 45 | The Curse of the Bronze Lamp | 1945 | Amazon US UK |
| 46 | Lord of the Sorcerers | 1945 | Amazon US UK |
| 47 | He Who Whispers | 1946 | Amazon US UK |
| 48 | My Late Wives | 1946 | Amazon US UK |
| 49 | The Sleeping Sphinx | 1947 | Amazon US UK |
| 50 | The Skeleton in the Clock | 1948 | Amazon US UK |
| 51 | Sleeping Sphinx / Beagle Scented Murder / Death of a Doll | 1948 | Amazon US UK |
| 52 | Below Suspicion | 1949 | Amazon US UK |
| 53 | A Graveyard to Let | 1949 | Amazon US UK |
| 54 | The Life of Sir Arthur Conan DOyle | 1949 | Amazon US UK |
| 55 | Night at the Mocking Widow | 1950 | Amazon US UK |
| 56 | The Bride of Newgate | 1950 | Amazon US UK |
| 57 | The Devil in Velvet | 1951 | Amazon US UK |
| 58 | Behind the Crimson Blind | 1952 | Amazon US UK |
| 59 | The Nine Wrong Answers | 1952 | Amazon US UK |
| 60 | The Cavalier's Cup | 1953 | Amazon US UK |
| 61 | The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes | 1954 | Amazon US UK |
| 62 | The New Exploits of Sherlock Holmes | 1954 | Amazon US UK |
| 63 | Captain Cut-Throat | 1955 | Amazon US UK |
| 64 | 365+1 | 1956 | Amazon US UK |
| 65 | Fear Is the Same | 1956 | Amazon US UK |
| 66 | Fire, Burn! | 1957 | Amazon US UK |
| 67 | The Dead Man's Knock | 1958 | Amazon US UK |
| 68 | Scandal at High Chimneys | 1959 | Amazon US UK |
| 69 | In Spite of Thunder | 1960 | Amazon US UK |
| 70 | The Demoniacs | 1961 | Amazon US UK |
| 71 | The Witch of the Low Tide | 1961 | Amazon US UK |
| 72 | The Men Who Explained Miracles | 1963 | Amazon US UK |
| 73 | Most Secret | 1964 | Amazon US UK |
| 74 | The House at Satan's Elbow | 1965 | Amazon US UK |
| 75 | Panic in Box C | 1966 | Amazon US UK |
| 76 | Dark of the Moon | 1967 | Amazon US UK |
| 77 | White Priory Murders | 1967 | Amazon US UK |
| 78 | Red Widow Murders | 1967 | Amazon US UK |
| 79 | Papa La-Bas | 1968 | Amazon US UK |
| 80 | The Ghosts' High Noon | 1969 | Amazon US UK |
| 81 | Deadly Hall | 1971 | Amazon US UK |
| 82 | The Hungry Goblin | 1972 | Amazon US UK |
| 83 | Seat of the Scornful | 1980 | Amazon US UK |
| 84 | The Door To Doom, And Other Detections | 1980 | Amazon US UK |
| 85 | All but Impossible! | 1981 | Amazon US UK |
| 86 | The Dead Sleep Lightly and Other Mysteries from Radio's Golden Age | 1983 | Amazon US UK |
| 87 | Crime on the Coast & No Flowers by Request | 1984 | Amazon US UK |
| 88 | Deadly Arts | 1985 | Amazon US UK |
| 89 | Fell and Foul Play | 1991 | Amazon US UK |
| 90 | Merrivale, March and Murder | 1991 | Amazon US UK |
| 91 | Merrivale Holds the Key | 1995 | Amazon US UK |
| 92 | The Hollow Man & The House in Gallows Lane | 1997 | Amazon US UK |
| 93 | 13 to the Gallows | 2008 | Amazon US UK |
| 94 | Locked Rooms: The Three Coffins; To Wake the Dead; The Skeleton in the Clock | 2008 | Amazon US UK |
| 95 | The John Dickson Carr Companion | 2015 | Amazon US UK |
| 96 | The Third Bullet and Other Stories | 2020 | Amazon US UK |
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