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The last of these, a tale of multiple homicide upon a Nile steamer, was judged by the celebrated detective novelist John Dickson Carr to be among the ten greatest mystery novels of all time.
The " puzzle " approach was carried even further into ingenious and seemingly impossible plots by John Dickson Carr — also writing as Carter Dickson — who is regarded as the master of the " locked room mystery ", and Cecil Street, who also wrote as John Rhode, whose detective, Dr. Priestley, specialised in elaborate technical devices, while in the US the whodunnit was adopted and extended by Rex Stout and Ellery Queen, among others.
Most of the writers whom he had developed at Ace went with him to DAW: Marion Zimmer Bradley, Andre Norton, Philip K. Dick, John Brunner, A. Bertram Chandler, Kenneth Bulmer, Gordon R. Dickson, A. E. van Vogt, and Jack Vance.
Author John Dickson argues that it was common in early Christianity to kiss a fellow believer by way of greeting, and as such kissing would have no romantic connotations.
#* For example, John William Draper and Andrew Dickson White's conflict thesis
The conflict thesis, which holds that religion and science have been in conflict continuously throughout history, was popularized in the 19th century by John William Draper and Andrew Dickson White.
Augustus John and his student James Dickson Innes spent two years painting in the Arenig valley around 1910, especially the mountain Arenig Fawr.
To some extent the office of rector has evolved into more of a figurehead role, with a significant number of celebrities and personalities elected as rectors, such as Stephen Fry and Lorraine Kelly at Dundee, Clarissa Dickson Wright at Aberdeen, and John Cleese and Frank Muir at St. Andrews, and political figures, such as Mordechai Vanunu at Glasgow.
During the 1950s, Karloff appeared on British TV in the series Colonel March of Scotland Yard, in which he portrayed John Dickson Carr's fictional detective Colonel March, who was known for solving apparently impossible crimes.
Others — S. S. Van Dine, John Dickson Carr, and Ellery Queen — were American, but imitated the " English " style.
Examples of pastiche are the Sherlock Holmes stories written by John Dickson Carr, and hundreds of similar works by such authors as E. B. Greenwood.
Other authors take delight in cherishing their alter egos: Ruth Rendell ( born 1930 ) writes one sort of crime novels as Ruth Rendell and another type as Barbara Vine ; John Dickson Carr also used the pseudonym Carter Dickson.
In the earliest years, the program was hosted by " The Man in Black " ( played by Joseph Kearns or Ted Osborne ) with many episodes written or adapted by the prominent mystery author John Dickson Carr.
* The Four False Weapons ( a detective fiction by John Dickson Carr )
In 1983, Hung co-founded another production company, D & B Films Company Ltd (" D & B " being short for " Duk-Bo "), with Dickson Poon and John Shum.
In 1950, John Dickson Carr produced a novel called The Bride of Newgate, set at the close of the Napoleonic Wars, possibly the second full-length historical whodunnit.
The Ontario and Livingston Mutual Insurance Office and John and Mary Dickson House are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
* John Dickson Carr, mystery writer, was born in Uniontown.
One son of Daniel Everett Slayden was Hartwell Marable Slayden b ca 1806, who had three sons who were medical doctors: William Marshall Slayden, John Dann Slayden and Hartwell Marable Slayden Jr. All three sons of Hartwell M are in the 1850 Dickson TN census, along with one of the patriarchs " William Everette Slayden " listed as a " waggonmaker " born 1788 in VA, and four other heads of households.
Those original homes were built by Robert Baird, John Black, John Burke, Hyrum Cook, John Dickson, Robert Fraser, William Graham, David Lewis, Gilbert Marchant, Alfred Nebeker, William Partridge, William Simmons, George Taggart, Henry Tucker, Franklin Turnbow, Lemuel Willis, W. W. Willis and George Harston.

John and Carr's
A thatched waterpump was built in 1911 at Carr's Corner in memory of John Soame by his uncle, a wealthy financier.
* John Dickson Carr's It Walks By Night ( 1930 ), The Hollow Man ( 1935 ), The Crooked Hinge ( 1938 ), The Case of the Constant Suicides ( 1941 ), Till Death Do Us Part ( 1944 ), He Who Whispers ( 1946 )
* John Dickson Carr's " The Shadow of the Goat " ( 1926 ), " The Third Bullet " ( 1937 )," The Silver Curtain " ( 1940 )," " The House in Goblin Wood " ( 1947 ), " Invisible Hands " ( 1958 ) and many, many others
* Benjamin is featured as a politician and amateur detective in John Dickson Carr's Papa La-Bas ( 1968 ), a mystery set in New Orleans in 1858.
* In John Dickson Carr's " Sir Henry Merrivale " novels, the brilliant, overweight Military Intelligence chief is compared to Mycroft Holmes, much to his annoyance.
They were replaced respectively by John Marshall ( drums ) and, for the recording of Six ( 1973 ), Karl Jenkins ( reeds, keyboards ), both former members of Ian Carr's Nucleus, and The Softs ' sound developed even more towards jazz fusion.
In 1853 he was invited to Carr's Lane Chapel, Birmingham, as co-pastor with John Angell James, on whose death in 1859 he became sole pastor for the rest of his life.
The action also stops for a while when Merlini quotes a well-known passage from John Dickson Carr's The Three Coffins about the nature of locked-room mystery novels, and adds some flourishes of his own in relation to the problems at hand.
And now I invite you to begin our first trip together in print with one of John Dickson Carr's most unusual and least known short stories, " The Other Hangman ," which begins on the opposite page.
John Tunnicliff, an influential farmer in the area, tried to mediate the dispute, but, as Tunnicliff reported in a letter to William Cooper, his efforts proved fruitless, even though Carr's friends and neighbors signed an affidavit testifying to his " frugal & industrious " dealings on behalf of his landlord.
John Brogden was not only unable to defeat Carr's Labor government at the 2003 election, but led the Liberal Party opposition to a landslide loss.
In June 1612, Killigrew was noted as " one of Carr's favourites " according to John Chamberlain.
Carr's son John played for Middlesex.
In a poll of 17 detective story writers and reviewers, this novel was voted as the second best locked room mystery of all time, behind John Dickson Carr's The Hollow Man.
He also starred in multiple adaptations of John Dickson Carr's Dr. Gideon Fell mysteries, including The House on Gallows Lane, The Hollow Man and Black Spectacles, To Wake the Dead, The Blind Barber and The Mad Hatter Mystery.
* 29 August – After describing Bob Carr's wife Helena as a " mail-order bride ", NSW Opposition Leader John Brogden resigns.

John and Hollow
For the novel by John and Carole Barrowman, see Hollow Earth ( novel )
* Hollow Earth ( novel ), the début novel by sibling writing pair John Barrowman and Carole Barrowman
This too was performing poorly, so Harley granted authority for selling tickets to John Blunt a director of the Hollow Sword Blade Company, which despite its name was an unofficial bank.
* John Lennon, member of The Beatles, owned a home with wife Yoko Ono in Laurel Hollow at the time of his death.
Hillside was a minor operation first worked by George W. Shonk and John Barry, operating as the Barry, Shonk & Dooley Coal Co., perhaps on land owned by the Barry family, old settlers on Plymouth Mountain east of Poke Hollow.
Nevertheless, he successfully took over the part of Father in John Mortimer's A Voyage Round My Father at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, also touring Canada and Australia in the role in 1972-73. International touring continued in 1974-75 with a Royal Shakespeare Company production of The Hollow Crown, visiting major venues in the US and Australia, while in 1976-77 he toured South America, Canada and the UK in the anthology, Shakespeare's People.
( The Hollow Man ( U. S. title: The Three Coffins ), a novel by John Dickson Carr )
John Cleves Symmes, Jr. ( 1779 – May 1829 ) was an American army officer whose 1818 Hollow Earth theory, expounded on the lecture circuit, gained him considerable notoriety.
Symmes ' nephew and namesake John Cleves Symmes, Jr. fought in the War of 1812 and is best known for his Hollow Earth Theory.
Dudley won the " Best Original Musical or Comedy Score " Oscar for her music ; The Gathering ( 2002 ) a Anthony Horowitz thriller directed by Brian Gilbert and starring Christina Ricci ; The Grotesque ( 1997 ) released in the US as Gentlemen Don't Eat Poets a British film starring Alan Bates, Theresa Russell and Sting ; Hollow Reed ( 1996 ) a drama directed by Angela Pope and set in Bath ; Knight Moves ( 1992 ) American thriller directed by Carl Schenkel and starring Christopher Lambert ; Lucky Break ( 2001 ) a British feelgood comedy starring James Nesbitt and based around a prison escape ; The Miracle Maker ( 2000 ) an animated feature film made for TV by BBC Wales with Russian model makers ; Monkeybone ( 2001 ) an American film combining live-action and stop-motion animation starring Brendan Fraser and Bridget Fonda ; Perfect Creature ( 2007 ) a New Zealand made horror / thriller film starring Leo Gregory ; Pushing Tin ( 1999 ) a comedy-drama film directed by Mike Newell based around air traffic controllers in New York ; The Pope Must Die ( 1991 ) a comedy film starring Robbie Coltrane the score was co-written with Jeff Beck ; Silence Like Glass ( Zwei Frauen ) ( 1989 ) German made but set in a cancer ward at a hospital in America ; Tristan & Isolde ( 2006 ) a Ridley Scott romantic drama based on the medieval romantic legend of Tristan and Iseult and starring James Franco and Sophia Myles ; The Walker ( 2007 ) a drama written and directed by Paul Schrader set in Washington, D. C .; Her TV music includes scores for all episodes of Jeeves and Wooster with Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie ; Lynda La Plante's Above Suspicion ; Kavanagh QC with John Thaw and The Tenth Kingdom an American epic fantasy TV miniseries written by Simon Moore.
This is Scheduled monument ( SM17026 ), often known as ' Piggy's Hollow ', consisting of the remains of the moats of a manor house built in the late 13th century by John de Grey.
* The Hollow Man ( 1935 novel ), a locked room mystery novel by John Dickson Carr
McBride became an ardent convert to John C. Symmes ' Hollow Earth theory, and wrote a book in support of it in 1826.
* John C. Symmes ' Hollow Earth Theory
Poe also incorporated the theories of Reynolds and John Cleves Symmes, Jr. on the Hollow Earth.
Devane appeared in the films McCabe & Mrs. Miller ( 1971 ) with Julie Christie and Warren Beatty ; Lady Liberty ( 1971 ) with Sophia Loren ; Family Plot ( 1976 ) directed by Alfred Hitchcock ; Marathon Man ( 1976 ) with Dustin Hoffman and Laurence Olivier ; Rolling Thunder ( 1977 ) with Tommy Lee Jones ; Red Alert ( 1977 ) with Ralph Waite, based on a novel by Harold R. " Hal " King ; The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training ( 1977 ) with Jackie Earle Haley ; Yanks ( 1979 ) with Richard Gere ; Testament ( 1983 ) with Jane Alexander ; Timestalkers ( 1987 ) with Lauren Hutton and Klaus Kinski ; Forgotten Sins ( 1996 ) with John Shea ; Exception to the Rule ( 1997 ), with Kim Cattrall and Sean Young ; Payback ( 1999 ) with Mel Gibson ; Hollow Man ( 2000 ), with Elisabeth Shue and Kevin Bacon ; and Space Cowboys ( 2000 ) with Clint Eastwood, Tommy Lee Jones, James Garner, and Donald Sutherland.
John Sedgwick is buried near his birthplace of Cornwall Hollow, Connecticut.
The Cascade Hollow distillery was founded in 1877 by John F. Brown and F. E. Cunningham.
Public tours are conducted via shuttle van from the Visitor Center, located at Philipsburg Manor House on Route 9 in Sleepy Hollow, New York ; these tours are organized by Historic Hudson Valley, an organization set up in 1951 by John D. Rockefeller, Jr. “ to celebrate the region ’ s history, architecture, landscape, and material culture, advancing its importance and thereby assuring its preservation.
* The Peryton features in John and Carole Barrowman's novel Hollow Earth.
In 1856, John and William Hogg, sons to the late James Hogg, subdivided their father's estate under the name " Hoggs Hollow ".
The Hollow Man also by John Dickson Carr was voted the best.
Part of the area is also known as Hoggs Hollow, named for James Hogg, a Scottish settler who settled in the area in 1824 and operated the mill on Yonge Street at the Don River north of the Town of York ( now Toronto ), by his sons John and William in 1856.

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