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A biography of the creator of Sherlock Holmes, depicting him as a romantic, a politician, a warfare expert, and an amateur detective
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John Dickson Carr (1906 1977) was one of the most popular authors of Golden Age British-style detective novels.Born in Pennsylvania and the son of a US congressman, Carr graduated from Haverford College in 1929.Soon thereafter, he moved to England where he married an Englishwoman and began his mystery-writing career. In 1948, he returned to the US as an internationally known author.Carr received the Mystery Writers of America s highest honor, the Grand Master Award, and was one of the few Americans ever admitted into the prestigious, but almost exclusively British, Detection Club.
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- PublisherDa Capo Press
- Publication date1993
- ISBN 10 0881843725
- ISBN 13 9780881843729
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages308
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THE LIFE OF SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOY
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