It Walks by Night.

John Dickson Carr

It Walks by Night.

New York and London:

Harper & Brothers

1930

This first novel by twenty-four-year-old John Dickson Carr is the reader’s introduction to his French detective Henri Bencolin. Carr’s writing career spanned forty years. Although he was American, he lived in England for many years and wrote many of his detective novels in the English manner, with complex plots and landed gentry. Carr was “unique among crime writers in his unswerving devotion to one form or another of the locked-room mystery.” He wrote under several pen names including Carter Dickson, Carr Dickson, and Roger Fairburn.

From the Collection of Jeffrey Johnson