John Dickson Carr

True, but she wasn't primarily a locked room specialist.

That specific obsession belonged to an American guy named John Dickson Carr.

Also known as Carter Dickson, right?

He wrote a lot of his best stuff in the British idiom under that pen name.

Oh, this is so freeing.

If you find yourself abandoning slow tea drinking village mysteries by chapter two because you just wanna get to the blood, stop forcing it.

You clearly need someone like John Dickson Carr or Janice Hallett, writers who front load the impossible trick right away.

Don't eat the ribollita if you want the pizza.

Well, think about the mechanics of the locked room genre.

Authors like John Dickson Carr built entire careers on them, and they rely entirely on the stakes of justice and societal order.

Right.

The killer must be caught so the moral balance of the universe can be restored.

Before Mr. McHugh brings you a message from our government, I would like to pass along to you the billboard for next Thursday's half hour of Suspense.

It'll star that polished and sinister actor Clifton Webb in a radio play based on John Dickson's Carr nov- John Dickson Carr's novel, The Burning Court.

Okay, Frank, take over.

The Battle of the Pacific has moved into high gear.