Henri Bencolin

Henri Bencolin is a fictional detective created by John Dickson Carr. He is Carr's first series detective, appearing in five "locked-room" and "impossible crime" mystery novels of the 1930s, and four short stories from an even earlier date. He is a juge d'instruction (examining magistrate) in the Paris judicial system.

The books in which he appears are:

  • It Walks By Night (1930)
  • Castle Skull (1931 - not published in the UK until c. 1980)
  • The Lost Gallows (1931)
  • The Waxworks Murder (1932)
  • The Four False Weapons (1937)

He is mentioned in Poison in Jest (1932), which shares the same narrator—Jeff Marle—as the Bencolin novels, but does not appear in the book.

The short stories in which he appears (all originally published in the Haverfordian) are:

  • "The Shadow of the Goat"
  • "The Fourth Suspect"
  • "The End of Justice"
  • "The Murder In Number Four"
Novels by John Dickson Carr
Sir Henry Merrivale series
Novels
  • The Plague Court Murders (1934)
  • The White Priory Murders (1934)
  • The Red Widow Murders (1935)
  • The Unicorn Murders (1935)
  • The Punch and Judy Murders (1936)
  • The Ten Teacups (1937)
  • The Judas Window (1938)
  • Death in Five Boxes (1938)
  • The Reader is Warned (1939)
  • And So to Murder (1940)
  • Murder in the Submarine Zone (1940)
  • Seeing is Believing (1941)
  • The Gilded Man (1942)
  • She Died a Lady (1943)
  • He Wouldn't Kill Patience (1944)
  • The Curse of the Bronze Lamp (1945)
  • My Late Wives (1946)
  • The Skeleton in the Clock (1948)
  • A Graveyard to Let (1949)
  • Night at the Mocking Widow (1950)
  • Behind the Crimson Blind (1952)
  • The Cavalier's Cup (1953)
Short stories
  • Merrivale, March and Murder (1991)
Gideon Fell series
Novels
  • Hag's Nook (1933)
  • The Mad Hatter Mystery (1933)
  • The Blind Barber (1934)
  • The Eight of Swords (1934)
  • Death-Watch (1935)
  • The Hollow Man (1935)
  • The Arabian Nights Murder (1936)
  • To Wake the Dead (1938)
  • The Crooked Hinge (1938)
  • The Black Spectacles (1939)
  • The Problem of the Wire Cage (1939)
  • The Man Who Could Not Shudder (1940)
  • The Case of the Constant Suicides (1941)
  • Death Turns the Tables (1941)
  • Till Death Do Us Part (1944)
  • He Who Whispers (1946)
  • The Sleeping Sphinx (1947)
  • Below Suspicion (1949)
  • The Dead Man's Knock (1958)
  • In Spite of Thunder (1960)
  • The House at Satan's Elbow (1965)
  • Panic in Box C (1966)
  • Dark of the Moon (1968)
Short story
collections
  • Dr. Fell, Detective, and Other Stories (1947)
  • The Men Who Explained Miracles (1963)
  • Fell and Foul Play (1991)
The Henri Bencolin series
Novels
  • It Walks By Night (1930)
  • Castle Skull (1931)
  • The Lost Gallows (1931)
  • The Waxworks Murder (1932)
  • The Four False Weapons (1937)
Short stories
  • "The Shadow of the Goat"
  • "The Fourth Suspect"
  • "The End of Justice"
  • "Murder In Number Four"
Other novels
As John Dickson Carr
  • Poison In Jest (1932)
  • The Burning Court (1937)
  • The Emperor's Snuff-Box (1942)
  • The Bride of Newgate (1950)
  • The Devil in Velvet (1951)
  • The Nine Wrong Answers (1952)
  • Captain Cut-Throat (1955)
  • Patrick Butler for the Defense (1956)
  • Fire, Burn! (1957)
  • Scandal at High Chimneys: A Victorian Melodrama (1959)
  • The Witch of the Low Tide: An Edwardian Melodrama (1961)
  • The Demoniacs (1962)
  • Most Secret (1964)
  • Papa La-Bas (1968)
  • The Ghosts' High Noon (1970)
  • Deadly Hall (1971)
  • The Hungry Goblin: A Victorian Detective Novel (1972)
As Carter Dickson
  • The Bowstring Murders (1934)
  • Fear Is the Same (1956)

Famous quotes containing the word henri:

    “What is really beautiful must always be true.”
    —Stendhal [Marie Henri Beyle] (1783–1842)