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Four False Weapons: Being the Return of Bencolin

1 review
John Dickson Carr

Collier Books (Macmillan Pub Co.), 1984

Bencolin seedy rather than satanic, but still sharp
John Dickson Carr's mysteries tend to be very atmospheric, most especially his Monsieur Bencolin mysteries that take place in decadent, prewar Europe. "The Four False Weapons" is set in and near Paris, and the famous French detective Bencolin is called out of retirement to solve the mystery of who killed the ageing `fille de joie' Rose Klonec. It is no ordinary murder that brings the ...

Corpse in the Waxworks (A Monsieur Bencolin Mystery)

5 reviews
John Dickson Carr

Harpercollins, 1990

Lurid, match-lit jewel of a mystery
"The Corpse in the Waxworks (1932)" (alternate English title: "The Waxworks Murder") features the suave, manic-depressive M. Henri Bencolin, 'juge d'instruction' of the Seine, the head of the Parisian police. He is accompanied by his friend, the American Jeff Marle, who narrates and serves as Bencolin's straight man, muscle, and the guy who falls for all of the smouldering, silk-bosomed, ...

Castle Skull

Berkley Publishing, 1964

Maleger the magician bought the famous Schloss Schadel, Castle Skull, on the Rhine and transformed it into a nightmare. It had a terrifying history of torture, insanity and suicide. Maleger brought his own magic and the dark Rhine witnessed flaming murder.

The Four False Weapons
John Dickson Carr

Collier Books, 1969

Marked with a peculiarly horrible wound, Rose Kionec's corpse is discovered by her former sweetheart, Ralph Douglas, in a villa near Paris. All the evidence seems to incriminate Ralph; the maid even swears he stayed with Rose on the night of her murder. Then the famous French sleuth, Bencolin, emerges from retirement to handle the case. He soon complicates matters further by saying he can prove who the killer is -- but that he doesn't believe ...

The Four False Weapons: A Monsieur Bencolin Mystery

1 review
John Dickson Carr

Harpercollins, 1989

A very Parisian murder
John Dickson Carr's mysteries tend to be very atmospheric, most especially his Monsieur Bencolin mysteries that take place in decadent, prewar Europe. "The Four False Weapons" is set in and near Paris, and the famous French detective Bencolin is called out of retirement to solve the mystery of who killed the ageing `fille de joie' Rose Klonec. It is no ordinary murder that brings the ...

*5* Mysteries (4 Dr. Gideon Fell Mysteries; 1 Monsieur Bencolin Mystery): "The Problem of the Wire Cage"; ...
John Dickson Carr

Zebra Mystery; Perennial Library, 1000

THE PROBLEM OF THE WIRE CAGE Zebra 1986 1st ed. ISBN 0821717022 300 pages "Death at center court . . . enter Dr. Gideon Fell." THE BLIND BARBER Perennial 1990 ISBN 0060810386 296 pages "Murder and merriment." --Saturday Review of Literature THE CROOKED HINGE Perrenial 1989 ISBN 0060809809 296 pages "Witchcraft, a malevolent automaton, and an inexplicable killing seen by several at close range keep brain buzzing and hackles rising. Dash out and ...

The Four False Weapons: Being the Return of Bencolin

1 review
John Dickson Carr

Harper & Brothers, 1937

The Corpses' Club
John Dickson Carr's mysteries tend to be very atmospheric, most especially his Monsieur Bencolin mysteries that take place in decadent, prewar Europe. "The Four False Weapons" is set in and near Paris, and the famous French detective Bencolin is called out of retirement to solve the mystery of who killed the ageing `fille de joie' Rose Klonec. It is no ordinary murder that brings the ...