John Dickson Carr

30 November 1906 – 27 February 1977

John Dickson Carr was a very highly regarded American mystery writer, though he lived for most of the '30s and '40s in England, married there and set many of his books there (Wikipedia). His two main detectives, Dr. Fell and Sir Henry Merrivale, were very English (Wikipedia).

• The hollow man
• The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes
• Hag's Nook
• The Crooked Hinge
• Death-Watch (A Dr. Gideon Fell Mystery)
• The Case of the Constant Suicides
• Below Suspicion (Gideon Fell Mystery Series)
• He who whispers
• The Curse of the Bronze Lamp
• The door to doom, and other detections
• The sleeping sphinx
• Senior Sleuths