It Walks by Night, John Dickson Carr
It Walks by Night, John Dickson Carr
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It Walks by Night

Author: John Dickson Carr

Narrator: John Telfer

Unabridged: 8 hr 39 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Soundings

Published: 10/01/2020

Categories: Fiction, Crime


Synopsis

In the smoke-wreathed gloom of a Parisian salon, Detective 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 enough, the detective's worst suspicions are realised when the beheaded body of the new suitor is discovered in a locked room of the salon, with no apparent exit. Bencolin sets off into the Parisian night to unravel the dumbfounding mystery and track down the sadistic killer.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bruce on January 11, 2010

This was my first John Dickson Carr mystery, read as a teenager, and I still remember not being able to sleep at night, thinking, "How could it possibly have been done?" For, of course, it's about an apparently impossible crime, which is Carr's specialty. It is also permeated with the atmosphere of......more

Goodreads review by Sharon on June 21, 2021

This mystery had too much side romance, but that complaint aside, I found this mystery to take me to all sorts of unexpected places and I never saw the conclusion coming. Carr fans with love this book and I would think that mystery fans would too.......more

Goodreads review by Adam on June 22, 2020

Set in Paris, this is a classic, fairly short Dickson Carr locked room mystery. It’s gory, somewhat creepy at times and has some well written characters and settings. It’s designed to shock - and it does, with more than one reveal to keep you on your toes. I have to admit, the solution to the locked......more

Goodreads review by Nancy on October 06, 2023

I actually read this in September, but I seem to be continuously playing catch up with posts. Better late than never, I guess. full post here: [URL not allowed] Published in 1930, It Walks by Night is the first novel in the series featuring Carr's French detective M. Henri Benco......more

Goodreads review by Bill on September 29, 2017

Carr's first of eighty-something novels starts off with an escaped madman stalking his newly-remarried wife, but quickly turns into a locked room mystery with the madman almost an afterthought. While the first murder is pleasingly set up and visualized, the plot drags, and the book is most interesti......more