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Castle Skull: A Rhineland Mystery (British Library Crime Classics) by John Dickson Carr
And so a dark shadow looms over the Rhineland where Inspector Henri Bencolin and his accomplice, Jeff Marle, have arrived from Paris. Entreated by the Belgian financier D'Aunay to investigate the gruesome and grimly theatrical death of actor Myron Alison, the pair find themselves at Schloss Schadel, an imposing hilltop fortress where a small group of suspects are still assembled.
As thunder rolls in the distance, Bencolin and Marle enter a world steeped in macabre legends of murder and magic to catch the killer still walking the maze-like passages and towers of the keep.
This new edition of Carr's spirited and deeply atmospheric early novel also features an introduction by Martin Edwards and the rare Inspector Bencolin short story "The Fourth Suspect."
John Dickson Carr (1906 - 1977) was a hugely popular and prolific author of crime fiction, regarded as one of the finest writers of Golden Age mysteries. Though born… Read More

It Walks by Night: A Paris Mystery (American Mystery Classics) by John Dickson Carr
Inspector Bencolin has summoned his allies to discuss a peculiar case in the smoke-wreathed gloom of a Parisian salon. 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 Inspector's worst suspicions are realized 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.

The Lost Gallows: A London Mystery (American Mystery Classics) by John Dickson Carr
As the thick, autumnal fog chokes the capital, within the fire-lit lounge of London's notorious Brimstone Club, a bizarre tale is being spun for Inspector Bencolin and his friend Jeff Marle. A club member has been sent a model of a tiny gallows, and the word is that the folkloric hangman Jack Ketch has been stalking the streets for victims by night, his gibbet in tow.
The threat of this supposed bogeyman becomes thrillingly real when, that same night, Bencolin and Marle are almost run down by a limousine with a corpse behind the wheel. When an ominous message claims the car's passenger has been taken to the gallows at Ruination Street for hanging, the detective and his associate venture into the night to discover the truth behind the terrifying Ketch and a street that cannot be found on any map.