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  • A Doubter's Guide to Jesus

    An Introduction to the Man from Nazareth for Believers and Skeptics

    by John Dickson ...
    Who was Jesus?Historical sources portray a person who was complex, multi-layered, and often contradictory to the tidy portrait that much of modern Christianity paints him as. Even the gospel accounts render him as both judge and healer, teacher and temple, servant and savior.A Doubter's Guide to Jesus is a persuasive and often challenging investigation into the historical figure found in the ... Read more

    $7.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • The Crooked Hinge

    by John Dickson Carr ...
    Series series American Mystery Classics
    In this mystery by the acclaimed author of To Wake the Dead, an inheritance hangs in the balance in a case of stolen identities, imposters, and murder.Banished from the idyllic English countryside he once called home and en route to live with his cousin in America, Sir John Farnleigh, black sheep of the wealthy Farnleigh clan, nearly perished in the sinking of the Titanic. Though he survived the ... Read more

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  • The Mad Hatter Mystery

    by John Dickson Carr ...
    Series series American Mystery Classics
    A corpse in a top hat leads Dr. Gideon Fell to a killer with a sick sense of humor in this mystery by the celebrated author of Hag's Nook.At the hand of an outrageous prankster, top hats are going missing all over London, snatched from the heads of some of the city's most powerful people―but is the hat thief the same as the person responsible for stealing a lost story by Edgar Allan Poe, the ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Plague Court Murders

    A Sir Henry Merrivale Mystery

    by John Dickson Carr ...
    Series series Sir Henry Merrivale Mysteries
    When a spiritual medium is murdered in a locked hut on a haunted estate, Sir Henry Merrivale seeks a logical solution to a ghostly crime.Plague Court is old and crumbling, long neglected after its lord, hangman's assistant Louis Playge, fell victim to the black death hundreds of years before. Famously haunted by Playge's ghost, the property finally has a new owner and banishing the spirit is the ... Read more

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  • The Black Spectacles

    by John Dickson Carr ...
    Series series British Library Crime Classics
    Everything you could ever want in a Golden Age of Detective Fiction novel. — BooklistAlso known by its US title The Problem of the Green Capsule, this classic novel is widely regarded as one of John Dickson Carr's masterpieces and remains among the greatest impossible crime mysteries of all time.A sinister case of deadly poisoned chocolates from Sodbury Cross's high street shop haunts the group of ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Dr. Gideon Fell Mysteries Volume One

    The Blind Barber, Death-Watch, and To Wake the Dead

    by John Dickson Carr ...
    Series series The Dr. Gideon Fell Mysteries
    Three Golden Age British-style whodunits from the Edgar Award–winning writer Agatha Christie called "a master magician . . . the king of the art of misdirection."One of the most popular Golden Age mystery authors, John Dickson Carr was also lauded by his peers. Agatha Christie offered him the highest praise from one mystery writer to another: "Very few detective stories baffle me, but Mr. Carr's ... Read more

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  • A Doubter's Guide to the Ten Commandments

    How, for Better or Worse, Our Ideas about the Good Life Come from Moses and Jesus

    by John Dickson ...
    The Ten Commandments have influenced non-religious Western culture more than it might imagine. This guide to the famous rules does more than explain what they are or what they say, but why we need them.This moral code in the Old Testament of the Bible—from which sprang ideas of justice, compassion, human rights, and freedom—has had such a strong impact on our society that it seems to represent ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Life of Jesus

    Who He Is and Why He Matters

    by John Dickson ...
    What really happened back in the first century, in Jerusalem and around the Sea of Galilee, that changed the shape of world history? Who is this figure that emerges from history to have a profound impact on culture, ethics, politics, and philosophy? Join historian John Dickson on this journey through the life of Jesus. This book, which features a self-contained discussion guide for use with Life ... Read more

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Fire, Burn!

    by John Dickson Carr ...
    Hurled back in time, a London police detective struggles to solve a nineteenth-century murder mystery in Golden Age master John Dickson Carr's thrilling mystery novelA woman is killed in a well-lit corridor, dying before the eyes of three witnesses who, impossibly, detect no foul play. For more than a century, this baffling murder lies cold in the files of Scotland Yard until it is discovered by ... Read more

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  • The Emperor's Snuff-Box

    by John Dickson Carr ...
    On the verge of a second marriage, a divorcee discovers her first husband has returned, and murder ensues in this chilling tale, which the New York Times Book Review hailed as "one of the most ingeniously constructed mystery stories John Dickson Carr has ever told"After divorcing her husband, Ned, Eve Neill falls in love with banker Toby Lawes and quickly agrees to marry him. But news of the ... Read more

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  • The Bride of Newgate

    by John Dickson Carr ...
    Golden Age mystery author John Dickson Carr displays his mastery of the historical mystery in this thrilling tale of courtship and punishment in Regency-era EnglandTo inherit her family fortune, beautiful Miss Caroline Ross must marry before her twenty-fifth birthday. But she has found only two breeds of husband: violent drunks and irresponsible dandies. To evade wedded agony, she chooses a spouse ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Deadly Hall

    by John Dickson Carr ...
    Hailed by Agatha Christie as "the king of the art of misdirection," John Dickson Carr draws readers into a thrilling tale of a family's hunt for an inheritance hidden in a haunted New Orleans mansionBefore he became a commodore in the Confederate Navy, Serena Hobart's grandfather was a treasure hunter who combed the bottom of the sea in search of Spanish gold. In 1927, after her father dies, ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus