This should fill out over time, but as I’ve reviewed a number of Carter Dickson’s (aka John Dickson Carr) books featuring the Old Man, I thought I’d add a bibliography/index for them. There’s my Top Five as well, if you want to look and disagree…

• The Plague Court Murders
•  The White Priory Murders

An actress is found with her head bashed in inside the Priory in the grounds of a country house. The only problem being, it was surrounded by unbroken snow all night…

•  The Red Widow Murders

A locked and sealed room that kills without leaving a mark. Merrivale investigates crimes in both the past and the present.

•  The Unicorn Murders
•  The Punch and Judy Murders aka The Magic Lantern Murders

Nothing impossible, but a rather bizarre caper for Merrivale and Ken Blake as he races to the altar while trying to solve a series of very odd murders.

•  The Ten Teacups aka The Peacock Feather Murders

A man is followed to a room when, as the door closes, a gunshot is heard. On opening the door, the room is empty except for the dead body of the man… Oh, and a table laid out with ten teacups…

•  The Judas Window aka The Crossbow Murder

James Answell is found with the body of his prospective father-in-law in a room sealed from the inside. An arrow protudes from the dead man’s chest, with James’s fingerprints on it. Good thing he’s got Sir Henry Merrivale as his defendant in court!

•  Death in Five Boxes
• The Reader is Warned

Death by Teleforce! A psychic announces that he will kill someone by telepathy at 8:00pm. Without fail, his prediction comes to pass, despite the psychic having an ironclad alibi and no evidence of foul play. One of Dickson’s cleverest and simplest ideas.

•  And So To Murder
• Murder in The Submarine Zone aka Nine – And Death Makes Ten aka Murder in the Atlantic

As a liner crosses the Atlantic during wartime, a murderer kindly leaves a bloody fingerprint. But it doesn’t match anyone on board…

•  Seeing is Believing

Everybody knows you can’t hypnotise someone into committing murder… unless they think it’s a game involving a rubber dagger, not realising that someone has impossibly switched the toy for a deadly substitute…

•  The Gilded Man aka Death and The Gilded Man
•  She Died A Lady

A genuine classic – Rita and her suitor’s footprints lead straight over the edge of the cliff – with no-one else nearby. But when their bodies are found at the bottom, they’ve been shot from close range…

•  He Wouldn’t Kill Patience
•  The Curse of the Bronze Lamp aka Lord of the Sorcerers

The curse of the Pharaohs strikes as Lady Helen Loring vanishes into thin air after returning from Egypt carrying a sacred lamp. Can H.M. unpick a riddle from ancient Egypt?

•  My Late Wives

A wife-killer vanished eleven years ago, but a play script has appeared detailing his crimes has appeared. A script that contains details that only the killer knew. As someone goes undercover posing as the murderer, it seems that the real killer has only been biding his time…

•  The Skeleton in the Clock
• A Graveyard To Let

A trip to the States and an impossible vanishing from a swimming pool keep the Old Man on his toes – if the police don’t arrest him first.

•  Night at the Mocking Widow
•  Behind the Crimson Blind
•  The Cavalier’s Cup

Short Story

• The House in Goblin Wood 

A young girl was once spirited out of her locked house – by fairies, apparently. When it happens again, can Merrivale get to the bottom of her predicament? And is it more serious this time?

Novella

• All In A Maze

A threat comes out of nowhere. A girl is almost gassed to death inside a locked room. The answers lie at the centre of the Hampton Court maze…