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The Red Widow Murders (American Mystery Classics) by Carter Dickson (John Dickson Carr)
The Red Widow Murders (American Mystery Classics) by Carter Dickson (John Dickson Carr)
They say that Lord Mantling's mansion is haunted -- at least, one room of it is. Known as the Red Widow's Chamber, the now-sealed quarters once housed the wife of a guillotine operator in the French Revolution and, since her passing, have been host to a century of unsolved horrors including the death of a man in 1802, the death of a child in 1895, and a number of mysterious mortalities in the years in between.
In 1935, eight men and women joined at the manor for a sinister experiment to determine the truth once and for all: they each draw a card, and whoever pulls the ace of Spades must spend a night in the terrifying room. But the challenge turns fatal when the man selected for the task is found poisoned the next morning when the chamber is unlocked. The room was guarded all night so nobody could enter or escape; what's more, the deadly toxin could only have entered through a break in the skin, but no wounds were discovered on the body.
Is this evidence, at last, of a nefarious spirit at work? Or is it the scheme of a diabolical and ingenious killer? Only Sir Henry Merrivale, called in to take note of the night's proceedings, will be able to examine the clues and deduce the truth.
John Dickson Carr (1906 - 1971) was one of the greatest writers of the American Golden Age mystery, and the only American author to be included in England's legendary Detection Club during his lifetime. He wrote more than seventy novels and is best known today for his locked-room mysteries.
PENZER PUBLISHERS, SOFTCOVER, 1935, 2023
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