It Walks by Night

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

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

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

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

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