The Corpse in the Waxworks, John Dickson Carr
The Corpse in the Waxworks, John Dickson Carr
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The Corpse in the Waxworks

Author: John Dickson Carr

Narrator: John Telfer

Unabridged: 8 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Soundings

Published: 06/01/2022

Categories: Fiction, Crime


Synopsis

Last night Mademoiselle Duchêne was seen heading into the Gallery of Horrors at the Musée 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 resist. Surrounded by the eerie noises of the night, Bencolin prepares to enter the ill-fated waxworks. Waiting within, beneath the glass-eyed gaze of a leering waxen satyr, is a gruesome discovery and the first clues of a twisted and ingenious mystery. First published in 1932 at the height of crime fiction's Golden Age, this macabre and atmospheric dive into the murky underground of Parisian society presents a puzzle delivered at a stunning pace.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Nancy

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

Goodreads review by Colin

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