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Castle Skull: A Rhineland Mystery (British Library Crime Classics Book 75)

✍ Scribed by John Dickson Carr, Martin Edwards

Book ID: 100452543
Publisher: British Library Publishing
Year: 2020
Tongue: English
Weight: 250 KB
Series: Henri Bencolin Ⅲ
Edition: Kindle
Category: Fiction
ISBN: 0712367365
ASIN: B0821NRRKY

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✦ Synopsis

‘That is the case. Alison has been murdered. His blazing body was seen running about the battlements of Castle Skull.’  And so a dark shadow looms over the Rhineland where Inspector Henri Bencolin and his accomplice Jeff Marle have arrived from Paris. Entreated by the Belgian financier D’Aunay to investigate the gruesome and grimly theatrical death of actor Myron Alison, the pair find themselves at the imposing hilltop fortress Schloss Schädel, in which a small group of suspects are still assembled.  As thunder rolls in the distance, Bencolin and Marle enter a world steeped in macabre legends of murder and magic to catch the killer still walking the maze-like passages and towers of the keep.  This new edition of John Dickson Carr’s spirited and deeply atmospheric early novel also features the rare Inspector Bencolin short story ‘The Fourth Suspect’.

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