Paul Halter is a French author of detective novels born in 1956.

Unconditional of John Dickson Carr but also of James Hadley Drives out, it enters in literature in 1986 with the curse of Barberousse , published on account of author, then with the fourth door which gains the Prix of the Detective novel of the Cognac Festival in 1987. The following year, the red fog gains the Prix of the Novel of Adventures. Its career is launched, and it published since forty novels which make of him the French-speaking Master of the impossible crime, in the wake of a John Dickson Carr or of a Clayton Rawson but with a set of themes and a style which belong only to him: the books of Halter are darker, plus violent one that those of his predecessors.

He has creates two characters of series: the doctor Alan Twist, eminent criminologist, and Owen Burns, a esthète victorien inspired of Oscar Wilde. It also published several novels without recurring characters, as well as a collection of news, the night of the wolf .

Principal works

• the fourth door
• the head of the tiger
• death invites you
• the cry of the siren
• has 139 pas de la dead
• the red fog
• the seventh assumption
• the letter which kills
• the image disturbs
• the crime of Maze

With the character of Owen Burns, appeared with the Editions Labor:

• the king of the disorder
• the phantom lane

External bonds

• Interview of Critical Paul Halter
• of the book " Twelve crimes of Hercule" by Jean-Philippe Palanchini
• Article in English on Paul Halter
• Discussion forum devoted to Paul Halter