The Case of the Thousand and One Nights

The golden age of detective fiction gifted us many stellar names. The works of writers such as Agatha Christie, Gilbert Chesterton, Earl Stanley Gardner, Rex Stout developed and refined the detective genre; their novels, unequivocally recognized as classics, are still beloved by readers today and serve as a standard of quality for subsequent generations of mystery authors. A distinguished place in this constellation rightfully belongs to John Dickson Carr (1906–1977) — a virtuoso master of perfectly constructed "impossible crimes in a locked room." In 1933, in the novel "The Witch’s Cabin," John Dickson Carr first introduced the public to the amateur detective Dr. Gideon Fell. The appearance of the hero was presumably based on another luminary of the detective genre — Gilbert Chesterton, and his merits in the history of detective fiction, according to most admirers of Carr's work, truly command respect. Thus, the writer Kingsley Amis, in his essay "My Favorite Detectives," called Dr. Fell "one of the three great successors of Sherlock Holmes."
This collection includes the seventh, eighth and ninth novels from the series narrating the adventures of Dr. Fell: "The Case of the Thousand and One Nights" (1936), "Don’t Wake the Dead" (1938), and "The Bent Pin" (1938).