John Dickson Carr (Magill’s Choice: 100 Masters of Mystery and Detective Fiction)
Principal Series
Henri Bencolin, 1930-1938; Dr. Gideon Fell, 1933-1967; Sir Henry Merrivale, 1934-1953; History of London Police, 1957-1961; New Orleans, 1968-1971.
Principal Series Characters
Henri Bencolin, juge d’instruction of Paris, is a slender, elegantly dressed aristocrat, with a face that reminds suspects of Mephistopheles. There is an undercurrent of cruelty in Bencolin’s makeup, and he frequently treats suspects with contempt. His interest in crime is solely in the puzzle. His cases are recounted by Jeff Marle, a young American living in...
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