Antony Carr (1916-1995) was an English author who published five crime novels, including ''A Comedy of Terrors'' (1955), ''Candles of the Night'' (1956) and ''The Man in Room 3'' (1958). He was the son of the singer

Robert Carr Leonard Robert Carr, Baron Carr of Hadley, (11 November 1916 – 17 February 2012) was a British Conservative Party politician who served as Home Secretary from 1972 to 1974. He served as a Member of Parliament (MP) for 26 years, and later s ...

and uncle of Australian newsreader

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. In ''A Comedy of Terrors'', the hero and narrator takes on a commission to find two Spanish dancers last seen in Paris early in

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. One reviewer considered it "a nicely developed spy plot, .. a most entertaining book", while another wrote that, "By a process of elimination, the murderer will be identified by some readers, but this will not detract from the tension of the final climax, or the growing interest in the people in the case."

Philip John Stead Philip John Stead OBE, FRSL (5 February 1915 – 22 June 2005), was an English criminologist, author, literary critic, translator and poet. After retirement in the United Kingdom, he emigrated to New York and then Massachusetts. Stead was born in ...

, reviewing ''Candles of the Night'' in the ''

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'', described it as "begin

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with a situation that is bizarre in the Chestertonian manner: a dinner-party at which the guests do not know their host and at which he does not even appear. ... cleverly put together and it has some atmospheric quality with its dim hotel and drab antique shop, but the author has let cleverness run riot at the expense of probability." Vernon Fane, reviewing it in '' The Sphere'', thought it had "a sound plot and a reasonable, yet surprising solution", though it contained too much dialogue to maintain the tension.

Francis Iles Anthony Berkeley Cox (5 July 1893 – 9 March 1971) was an English crime writer. He wrote under several pen-names, including Francis Iles, Anthony Berkeley and A. Monmouth Platts. Early life and education Anthony Berkeley Cox was born 5 July ...

described ''The Man in Room 3'' as "an old-fashioned melodrama .. with missing heirs and blind men who can see"; another reviewer wrote that it was "to be read with particular pleasure."

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1916 births 1995 deaths English crime fiction writers Crime novelists 20th-century English novelists {{England-novelist-stub