The Blind Barber

The golden age of the detective genre gave us many star names. The works of writers such as Agatha Christie, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Earl Stanley Gardner, and Rex Stout developed and perfected the detective genre; their novels, undisputedly recognized as classics, are still beloved by readers today and serve as a benchmark of quality for subsequent generations of authors of detective stories. An honorable place in this constellation rightfully belongs to John Dickson Carr (1906–1977) — a virtuoso master of perfectly crafted "impossible crimes in a locked room." In 1933, in the novel "The Witch's Cave," John Dickson Carr first introduced the amateur sleuth Dr. Gideon Fell to the public. Then, in the novel "The Three Coffins" (1934), also published under the title "The Hollow Man," Dr. Fell addressed the reader with the legendary "Lecture on the Locked Room," unexpectedly adding to his remarkable achievements an unparalleled investigation into the mechanism of one of the key plot schemes of detective literature. This collection, continuing the series of stories about the adventures of the clever and charming Dr. Gideon Fell, presents to the readers the iconic novel "The Three Coffins," as well as the novels "The Blind Barber" (1934) and "The Death Clock" (1935).