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. Bencolin is a juge d'instruction in the Paris judicial system.
The books in which he appears are:
Bencolin is mentioned in Poison in Jest, 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 are: