DICKSON-CARR JOHN

ΤΟ ΠΑΡΑΘΥΡΑΚΙ ΤΟΥ ΙΟΥΔΑ
Ο σερ Χένρι Μεριβέιλ, δικηγόρος και ερασιτέχνης ντετέκτιβ, αναλαμβάνει την υπεράσπιση του νεαρού Τζέιμς Κάπλον Άνσγουελ, που κατηγορείται για τον φόνο του μέλλοντα πεθερού του Έιβορι Χιουμ. Ο Χιουμ βρέθηκε νεκρός από βέλος, σε κλειδαμπαρωμένο δωμάτιο. Μοναδικός μάρτυρας ο Άνσγουελ, που δεν θυμόταν τίποτα γιατί είχε λιποθυμήσει, πιθανόν από ναρκωτικό που περιείχε το ουίσκι του, ενώ στο βέλος βρέθηκαν αργότερα δικά του αποτυπώματα. Ο Μεριβέιλ εξιχνιάζει το έγκλημα στη διάρκεια της δίκης, χρησιμοποιώντας με μαεστρία πλήθος ανορθόδοξων τεχνικώ...
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(P/B) CASTLE SKULL
In Castle Skull, John Dickson Carr presents another ingenious locked-room mystery, steeped in the same haunting atmosphere as his macabre classic It Walks by Night. The great magician, Maleger, has bought Schloss Schadel (Castle Skull) on the Rhine and has transformed it into a fitting abode for his stage persona, replete with all the trappings of Gothic romance. When a man is seen atop the battlements, running aflame and then plunging to his doom, the foreboding reputation of the castle seems to have become reality. And when Maleger himse...
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Ο ΑΣΩΜΑΤΟΣ ΑΝΘΡΩΠΟΣ
"...διαπράχθηκαν δύο φόνοι, με τέτοιον τρόπο ώστε ο δολοφόνος θα πρέπει να ήταν όχι μόνον αόρατος, αλλά και ελαφρύτερος από τον αέρα. Σύμφωνα με τις μαρτυρίες, αυτό το άτομο σκότωσε το πρώτο θύμα του και κυριολεκτικά εξαφανίστηκε. Και πάλι σύμφωνα με τις μαρτυρίες, σκότωσε το δεύτερο θύμα του στη μέση μιας έρημης οδού, με παρατηρητές και στη μία και στην άλλη άκρη της κι όμως, κανείς δεν τον είδε και καμία πατημασιά δεν υπήρχε στο χιόνι!" Αυτό το μυστήριο καλείται να εξηγήσει ο λεξικογράφος δόκτωρ Φελ και μαζί του ο αναγνώστης του Ασώματο...
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(P/B) IT WALKS BY NIGHT
We are thrilled to welcome John Dickson Carr into the Crime Classics series with his first novel, a brooding locked room mystery in the gathering dusk of the French capital. In the smoke-wreathed gloom of a Parisian salon, Inspector Bencolin has summoned his allies to discuss a peculiar case. A would-be murderer, imprisoned for his attempt to kill his wife, has escaped and is known to have visited a plastic surgeon. His whereabouts remain a mystery, though with his former wife poised to marry another, Bencolin predicts his return. Sure eno...
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(P/B) TILL DEATH DO US PART
Crime author Dick Markham is in love again; his fianc?e the mysterious newcomer to the village, Lesley Grant. When Grant accidentally shoots the fortune teller through the side of his tent at the local fair - following a very strange reaction to his predictions - Markham is reluctantly brought into a scheme to expose his betrothed as a suspected serial husband-poisoner. That night the enigmatic fortune teller - and chief accuser - is found dead in an impossible locked-room setup, casting suspicion onto Grant and striking doubt into the hea...
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(P/B) THE CORPSE IN THE WAXWORKS
'"The purpose, the illusion, the spirit of a waxworks. It is an atmosphere of death. It is soundless and motionless...Do you see?"' Last night Mademoiselle Duchene was seen heading into the Gallery of Horrors at the Musee Augustin waxworks, alive. Today she was found in the Seine, murdered. The museum's proprietor, long perturbed by the unnatural vitality of his figures, claims that he saw one of them following the victim into the dark - a lead that Henri Bencolin, head of the Paris police and expert of 'impossible' crimes, cannot possibly...
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(P/B) THE LOST GALLOWS
A third title from John Dickson Carr's incredibly popular 'Inspector Bencolin' series, this story takes place between previous British Library Crime Classic titles It Walks By Night and Castle Skull. John Dickson Carr remains one of the most influential and popular authors in Classic Crime fiction, and this fantastic early novel has been out of print for decades. This book also includes the extremely rare Dickson Carr short story, 'The Ends of Justice'. As the thick, autumnal fog chokes the capital, within the fire-lit lounge of London's ...
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