The Man Who Could Not Shudder

8 hrs. 42 min.

Language Russian

Author John Carr

Narrator Anton Makarov

Description

The golden age of detective fiction brought the world a whole constellation of famous names. Agatha Christie, Gilbert Chesterton, Earl Stanley Gardner, Rex Stout—their books, step by step, honed the genre, and the novels, long since established as acknowledged classics, are still read with unchanged interest today and serve as a benchmark of quality for new generations of authors. Among these masters, John Dixon Carr (1906–1977) holds a special place—an unrivaled virtuoso of carefully constructed stories of “impossible crimes in a locked room.”

“ The Man Who Didn’t Fear” is a continuation of the series about amateur detective Dr. Gideon Fell. It is believed that the hero’s outward appearance is largely inspired by the image of Chesterton himself, and, in the opinion of Carr’s fans, his role in the development of the detective tradition is hard to overestimate. No wonder that writer Kingsley Amis, in the essay “My Favorite Sleuths,” included Dr. Fell among the “three great successors to Sherlock Holmes.”