The golden age of detective fiction gifted us numerous star names. Works by writers such as Agatha Christie, Gilbert Chesterton, Earl Stanley Gardner, Rex Stout developed and refined the detective genre; their novels, unconditionally recognized as classics, are still beloved by readers today and serve as a benchmark for quality for subsequent generations of detective story authors. A prominent place in this galaxy rightfully belongs to John Dickson Carr (1906–1977)—a virtuoso master of perfectly constructed 'impossible crimes in a locked room.' In 1933, John Dickson Carr first introduced the amateur detective Dr. Gideon Fell to the public. The appearance of the hero was presumably based on another luminary of the detective genre—Gilbert Chesterton, and his merits in the history of detective fiction, according to most admirers of Carr's work, truly command respect. Thus, writer Kingsley Amis in his essay 'My Favorite Detectives' referred to Dr. Fell as 'one of the three great successors to Sherlock Holmes.'
This collection includes the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth novels in the series about the investigations of the ingenious Dr. Fell, published in new translations: the classic 'locked room mystery' 'The Case of the Endless Suicides' (1941), 'Death Changes Everything' (1942)—a rare novel in which the author, on the contrary, departs from this hallmark plot device of his work—and 'Until Death Do Us Part' (1944)—a novel that Carr himself considered one of his best works.
