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It Walks by Night

It Walks by Night

A Paris Mystery
CrimeMystery
Pages
272
Published
1997
Language
English

Synopsis

In a Parisian gambling house, the Duc de Saligny is found decapitated, his head eerily upright in the card room. Despite the room being guarded, the killer vanished without a trace. Flamboyant prefect Henri Bencolin takes on the baffling case, determined to outwit a murderer who seems to defy logic and deal another hand of death.

Prose complexity
4/10

Vibe

TenseGritty
Locked RoomMystery Box

Genres

Crime Mystery Thriller

About the author

J
John Dickson Carr

John Dickson Carr was a very highly regarded American mystery writer, though he lived for most of the '30s and '40s in England, married there and set many of his books there (Wikipedia). His two main detectives, Dr. Fell and Sir Henry Merrivale, were very English (Wikipedia).

Characters

Henri BencolinProtagonist
Duc de SalignySupporting
All characters in It Walks by Night