From the archives of the British Library, the master of locked-room
mystery John Dickson Carr presents an atmospheric and haunting example
of crime fiction written in the Golden Age of Murder.
Alison has been murdered. But 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
whodunit also features the rare Inspector Bencolin short story 'The
Fourth Suspect.'