Castle Skull: A Rhineland Mystery (British Library Crime Classics)

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 in Pennsylvania, Carr developed a distinctly British style of mystery writing from his time in England and became one of only two Americans ever admitted to the Detection Club.