The golden age of detective fiction gave us a host of stellar names. Works by writers such as Agatha Christie, Gilbert Chesterton, Earl Stanley Gardner, Rex Stout—developed and perfected the detective genre. Their novels, firmly recognized as classics to this day, remain beloved by readers and serve as a quality benchmark for later generations of authors writing detective stories. A well-deserved place among this constellation belongs to John Dixon Carr (1906–1977), a virtuoso master of perfectly constructed “impossible crimes” in locked rooms. The novel “The Crooked Hinge” continues the series about amateur sleuth Dr. Gideon Fell. In a secluded English manor, a mysterious murder occurs: a man dies from a gunshot inside a locked room, and nearby there is only an arched rope noose. The brilliant investigator, Dr. Fell, takes on the case to solve one of the most intricate “impossible mysteries.”