

The Corpse in the Waxworks
Author: John Dickson Carr
Series: British Library Crime Classics
Narrator: John Telfer
Unabridged: 8 hr 36 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Soundings
Published: 06/01/2022
Author: John Dickson Carr
Series: British Library Crime Classics
Narrator: John Telfer
Unabridged: 8 hr 36 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Soundings
Published: 06/01/2022
yikes -- what a book! full post is here: [URL not allowed] A quotation from Poe's "Masque of the Red Death" serves as one of two epigraphs for this book and as it turns out, it is beyond appropriate. Words like "grotesque," "phantasm," "delirious fancies," leap out immediately, b......more
Carr wrote five novels with Bencolin as the lead detective. This fourth entry is what I tend to think of as the last"real" Bencolin story as The Four False Weapons, which would appear some years later, has a different, less fevered feel than these early novels. And there's the key word, early - the......more