The Lost Gallows (ISBN: 9780712353632) Inspector Bencolin attempts to piece together a puzzle involving a disappearing street, a set of gallows which mysteriously reveals itself to a number of figures traipsing through the London fog, and the bizarre
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It Walks by Night (ISBN: 9780712352642)
published 1952 JJ over at Invisible Event was reading this late last year, and his review made me pick it up after a long gap. I had ...
We’ve all had those days. Carey Quint meets the last surviving member of the family with who his family has been feuding (over a stolen magic trick no less) in the reptile house of a small private zoo. He loses his temper, throwing a zookeeper into a glass case, setting a couple of lizards free,…
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This historical mystery, set around the battle of Waterloo and involving a locked room murder, a phantom woman who only our hero believes exists, a mysterious 'man in black' and a duel in a hot air balloon, was for decades a 'lost' radio serial by the great John Dickson Carr. The story began on the eve…
Synopsis From Back Cover: Eve Neil, too beautiful for her own good, thought at first that she could keep quiet about her actions at the...
Martin Clarke is holding a party – a house-warming, if you like – for the stately home that he has purchased and refurbished. Of course not many other people wanted to buy it as it has a history of bizarre events. For example, an eighty year old butler who decided one evening, against all previous…
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Ah, my many long-term projects. My Ellery Queen bibliography, currently derailed due to losing my copy of The Dragon's Teeth. Original Sins has come to an end (almost) and let's not mention the Mystery Tour of the USA... But the first thing that I started, way back when, was a bibliography of the adventures of…
Fatal Descent (Popular Library 87, 1939) John Rhode and Carter Dickson Cover artist unknown (signature appears to read Fiedler) This is one of my favourite covers. Gorgeous design.
It Walks By John Dickson Carr
Carroll & Graf (1990) John Dickson Carr Cover artist unknown
In addition to being the acknowledged master of the “locked-room” mystery story John Dickson Carr also wrote a number of historical detec...
Get lost in tales of suspense by Donna Leon, John Dickson Carr, Wanda Morris, Iris Mwanza and Delia Pitts.
Part of a series honoring the late author and blogger Bill Crider . The Three Coffins , by John Dickson Carr (Dell, 1960). Cover illus...
