John Dickson Carr has 6 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 14 narrators, with an average listener rating of 5★ across 4 ratings. The most-rated is Classic BBC Radio Horror: Appointment with Fear.
Classic BBC Radio Horror: Appointment with Fear
Summary
Four chilling episodes from the famous 1940s BBC radio series, introduced by Valentine Dyall, AKA The Man in Black.
These are the four sole surviving episodes from the BBC archive: The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe (18/9/1943); The Speaking Clock by John Dickson Carr (13/4/1944); The Clock Strikes Eight by John Dickson Carr(18/5/1944); And The Deep Shuddered by Monckton Hoffe (20/11/1945).
Amongst the cast are Marjorie Westbury, Marius Goring and Gladys Spencer.
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Suspense: Fear & Trembling
Summary
From the very beginning of its two-decade run on radio, Suspense was tops in thriller entertainment! Its first year on the air brought together stories from such outstanding masters of the genre as John Dickson Carr, Dashiell Hammett, and Edgar Allan Poe! Tune in to 20 tense classics from Radio's Outstanding Theatre of Thrills - starring Peter Lorre, Mary Astor, Susan Hayward, Richard Dix, Lou Merrill, Agnes Moorehead, Frank Readick, Alice Frost, and more. Episodes Include: The Cave of Ali Baba 08-19-42; The Kettler Method 09-16-42; One Hundred in the Dark 09-30-42; The Devil in the Summer House 11-03-42; Will You Make a Bet with Death? 11-10-42; Menace in Wax 11-17-42; The Bride Vanishes 11-24-42; Two Sharp Knives 12-22-42; Nothing Up My Sleeve 01-05-43; The Pit and the Pendulum 01-12-43; The Devil's Saint 01-19-43; In Fear and Trembling 02-16-43; The Customers Like Murder 03-23-43; The Dead Sleep Lightly 03-30-43; Fire Burn and Cauldron Bubble 04-06-43; Fear Paints a Picture 04-13-43; The Moment of Darkness 04-20-43; The Diary of Saphronia Winters 04-27-43; Death Flies Blind 05-04-43; Mr. Makham, Antique Dealer 05-11-43.
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Dr Gideon Fell: Collected Cases
Summary
Donald Sinden stars as eccentric amateur sleuth Gideon Fell in these two full-cast BBC radio dramatisations of stories by John Dickson Carr. One of the preeminent detectives of crime fiction's golden age, Dr Gideon Fell is stout, jovial and fond of beer and band music. However, he also possesses a razor-sharp mind and extraordinary powers of deduction, which are frequently put to the test as he is called upon to solve seemingly impossible crimes. Created by the master of the locked-room mystery, John Dickson Carr, Dr Fell appeared in 23 novels, several short stories and plays and numerous radio adaptations. These two dramas, first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1997, see him embroiled in two inexplicable cases that have the police baffled. In The Hollow Man, two murders are committed by someone who appears to be both invisible and lighter than air, while in The House in Gallows Lane, the peaceful English countryside of 1936 is disrupted by an alarming fortune-teller - and a mysterious death. These thrilling dramatisations star Donald Sinden as Gideon Fell with John Hartley as Hadley. Classic Radio Crime: presenting vintage detectives for your investigation!
©2017 John Dickson Carr (P)2017 Penguin Random House UK
Castle Skull
Summary
A dark shadow looms over the Rhineland, where Inspector Henri Bencolin and his accomplice Jeff Marle have arrived from Paris. Entreated by the Belgian financier D'Aunay to investigate the gruesome and grimly theatrical death of actor Myron Alison, the pair find themselves at the imposing hilltop fortress Schloss Schädel, in which a small group of suspects are still assembled. As thunder rolls in the distance, Bencolin and Marle enter a world steeped in macabre legends of murder and magic to catch the killer still walking the maze-like passages and towers of the keep.
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The Hollow Man
Summary
The most famous of all locked-room mysteries - a classic in the crime genre. The first deadly walking of the hollow man took place when the side streets of London were quiet with snow and the three coffins of the prophecy were filled at last.... The murderer of Dr Grimauld walked through a locked door, shot his victim and vanished. He killed his second victim in the middle of an empty street, with watchers at each end, yet nobody saw him, and he left no footprints in the snow. And so it is up to the irrepressible, larger-than-life Dr Gideon Fell to solve this most famous and taxing of locked-room mysteries.
©2019 John Dickson Carr (P)2019 Orion Publishing Group
It Walks by Night
Summary
In the smoke-wreathed gloom of a Parisian salon, Detective Bencolin has summoned his allies to discuss a peculiar case. A would-be murderer, imprisoned for his attempt to kill his wife, has escaped and is known to have visited a plastic surgeon. His whereabouts remain a mystery, though with his former wife poised to marry another, Bencolin predicts his return. Sure enough, the detective's worst suspicions are realised when the beheaded body of the new suitor is discovered in a locked room of the salon, with no apparent exit. Bencolin sets off into the Parisian night to unravel the dumbfounding mystery and track down the sadistic killer.
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