John Dixon Carr is a classic of the English detective genre and the author of seventy novels. His books are distinguished by an unique inventiveness of plot constructions. “The art of the criminal,” says one of his characters, “is like the art of a fakir… The art of magic only distracts your attention and directs it along the false trail…” Carr’s brightest example is the novel “Poison in Jest.” In the novel, a mysterious murder occurs that, at first glance, cannot be explained logically in any way. And yet the motives for the crime are quite concrete.