Carr, John Dickson (1905–1977)

US writer. His ingenious detective stories include The Crooked Hinge (1938), The Sleeping Sphinx (1947), Scandal at High Chimneys (1959), and many others. He also wrote crime mysteries under the names of Carr Dickson and Carter Dickson.

In 1949 he published a life of the writer Arthur Conan Doyle, and with Adrian C Doyle, Sir Arthur's youngest son, wrote The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes (1954) in an attempt to resuscitate the detective.