John Dickson: 52 books

A Grand Master of the British-style detective story brings Victorian England to vivid life in this murder mystery, which critic Anthony Boucher hailed as a “faultless formal puzzle in detection” In 1865, novelist Clive Strickland is relaxing at his club when his friend Victor Damon comes...

The master of the Golden Age detective novel displays his expertise in the historical whodunit with this Gothic tale of passion and bizarre murder, which Newsday hailed as “mystery fiction at its finest” When headstrong young heiress Peg Ralston flees London for Versailles, her father sends...

The master of the Golden Age British-style detective novel presents his redoubtable sleuth Dr. Gideon Fell in a baffling murder mystery set in the Swiss Alps Young Audrey Page has been warned against joining the aging film star Eve Eden and her temperamental friends at a Swiss chalet. Trustingly,...

Rosebudd the American Pimp is Rosebudd's version of how the game of pimping goes. He tells the ins and outs and the dos and don'ts of the pimp game and the 27 rules he lived by to become one of the greatest pimps that ever lived. The book covers the choices one has to make in order to go to the highest...

How do you decide to stop living a life of luxury, fast women and cars, money, prestige and an ability to do what ever it is you want to do? How do you decide? Painstakingly, that's all I can say.

To solve a centuries-old crime, a man makes a deal with the devil: “The fantasy, the murder and the historical action are . . . all wonderful” (San Francisco Chronicle). An aging scholar of Restoration history, Nicholas Fenton has long dreamed of traveling into the past. He has a date in...

A murdered man in a top hat leads Dr. Gideon Fell to a killer with a sick sense of humor At the hand of an outrageous prankster, top hats are going missing all over London, snatched from the heads of some of the city’s most powerful people—but is the hat thief the same as the person responsible...

A Doubter's Guide to Jesus is an introduction to the major portraits of Jesus found in the earliest historical sources. Portraits because our best information points not to a tidy, monolithic Jesus, but to a complex, multi-layered and, at times, contradictory figure. While some might be troubled by...

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Ever since – almost exactly a hundred years ago – the Grimms produced their Fairy Tale Book, folk-lorists have been engaged in making similar collections for all the other countries of Europe, outside Germany, till there is scarcely a nook or a corner in the whole continent that has not been ransacked...

Un soir d’hiver, tandis que le Professeur Charles Grimaud se trouve dans un pub avec des amis, un mystérieux inconnu les interrompt et affirme avoir vu des cadavres sortir de leurs tombes et traverser des murs. Quelques jours plus tard, alors qu’il se trouve dans son bureau fermé de l’intérieur...

Miles Despard, un vieux garçon de cinquante-six ans, a été enterré dans un caveau scellé au milieu de sa propriété, en présence de dizaines de témoins, à Crispen, aux portes de Philadelphie. Mais voilà que des soupçons pèsent sur sa mort. Maladie ou empoisonnement ? Pour couper court...

The incredibly amazing 9th volume of Golden Age Science Fiction! Featuring: The Protector, by Betsy Curtis Jaywalker, by Ross Rocklynne Picture Bride, by William Morrison Two Weeks in August, by Frank Robinson Queen of the Flaming Diamond, by Leroy Yerxa< No Shield from the Dead, by Gordon Dickson...