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John Dickson Carr is presently enjoying renewed attention among general mystery enthusiasts. While Carr was popularly recognized during much of his career, and while to more serious crime-fiction readers Carr has always remained in the pantheon of detective-fiction greats, Carr’s recognizability has not endured as has that of his notable contemporaries Agatha Christie and Ellery Queen. Of late, with the reissue of so many of Carr’s novels through the British Library Crime Classics series and Penzler Publishers’ American Mystery Classics series—not to mention the rediscovery and publication of some of his earliest work by that gem of an independent press,