The Lost Gallows

(read some time back -- just now in catch up mode) full post is here [URL not allowed] 3.7 rounded up ... I've had such great fun with this short mystery series. Bencolin and Marle are in London to see a play, and there they are staying with one of Bencolin's old friends, Sir Jo......more

Tohle je návrat klasického Carra. Už jen název slibuje zmizelou šibenici, a to nebude jediná podivnost v knize. Máme tu pomstu ze záhrobí, mumii, tajemného muže, co se neviditelně dostává do bytů a nechává po sobě maketu šibenice, auto řízené mrtvým mužem, oběšence v neexistující ulici a spoustu dal......more

Not a bad book but I found it a little disappointing.......more

This is a story written by a cocky 24-year-old who thinks he's writing literary masterpieces, and it certainly reads like it. So much nonsense that outshines the mystery, which is so overwrought and unbelievable that perhaps that's why it was smothered in a thick fog of BS.......more

A solid, rewarding Murder Mystery, with a few disappointing elements to the manifold trickery festooning the main question: Who killed Nezam El Moulk that weird night in London? Actually, that is NOT the question. El Moulk "feels" dead, there is a certain aura of finality to his disappearance - but,......more