The author was given the honor of writing a biography of Arthur Conan Doyle, which was published in 1949. After 1950, Carr created ten historical detective stories, essentially historical novels, in which, along with fictional ones, there are very real characters. Many of Carr's novels take place in the distant or not-so-distant past. “The Devil in Velvet” takes the reader to the 17th century - during the restoration of the Stuart monarchy, “The Possessed” - to England of the 18th century, the novels “Fire, Burn!”, “A Scandal at High Chimneys” and “The Witch of Low Tide” tell about the activities of Scotland -Yard in the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, in the episodes of “The Red Widow Murders” the terrible scenes of the Jacobin terror in France come to life. Contents:1. Poisoning as a joke (Translation: V. Tirdatov)2. Murders at Baustring Castle (Translation: I. Mansurov)3. The Burning Court (Translation: G. Nadezhdin, Yu. Bukovsky)4. The Emperor's Snuff Box (Translation: V. Tirdatov)5. The Bride of Newgate 6. The Devil in Velvet 7. Nine Wrong Answers (Translation: V. Tirdatov)8. Captain Cut-Throat (Translation: V. Tirdatov)9. Patrick Butler defends (Translation: E. Netesova)10. The same fear (Translation: I. Mansurov)11. Fire, burn! (Translation: I. Mansurov)12. Scandal in High Chimneys (Translation: A. Kresnin)13. The Witch of the Low Tide (Translation: I Mansurov)14. Possessed (Translation: Yu. Kleiner)15. The house where death lives (Translation: Ilan Polotsk)16. Hungry Goblin (Translation: E. Polotsk)

MediaDB / The author was given the honor of writing a biography of Arthur Conan Doyle, which was published in 1949. After 1950, Carr created ten historical detective stories, essentially historical novels, in which, along with fictional ones, there are very real characters. Many of Carr's novels take place in the distant or not-so-distant past. “The Devil in Velvet” takes the reader to the 17th century - during the restoration of the Stuart monarchy, “The Possessed” - to England of the 18th century, the novels “Fire, Burn!”, “A Scandal at High Chimneys” and “The Witch of Low Tide” tell about the activities of Scotland -Yard in the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, in the episodes of “The Red Widow Murders” the terrible scenes of the Jacobin terror in France come to life. Contents:1. Poisoning as a joke (Translation: V. Tirdatov)2. Murders at Baustring Castle (Translation: I. Mansurov)3. The Burning Court (Translation: G. Nadezhdin, Yu. Bukovsky)4. The Emperor's Snuff Box (Translation: V. Tirdatov)5. The Bride of Newgate 6. The Devil in Velvet 7. Nine Wrong Answers (Translation: V. Tirdatov)8. Captain Cut-Throat (Translation: V. Tirdatov)9. Patrick Butler defends (Translation: E. Netesova)10. The same fear (Translation: I. Mansurov)11. Fire, burn! (Translation: I. Mansurov)12. Scandal in High Chimneys (Translation: A. Kresnin)13. The Witch of the Low Tide (Translation: I Mansurov)14. Possessed (Translation: Yu. Kleiner)15. The house where death lives (Translation: Ilan Polotsk)16. Hungry Goblin (Translation: E. Polotsk)

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