Castle Skull

By John Dickson Carr

Subjects: Golden Age mystery

Description: > FLAMES OF DEATH >The burning body of actor Myron Alison performed a sparkling *danse macabre* on the castle battlement before plunging to the earth below in a final blaze of glory. Had the legendary magician Maleger - dead for seventeen years - matched his greatest trick of all from beyond the grave? >ENTER HENRI BENCOLIN >The hand might be quicker than the eye, but ghost stories didn't hoodwink world-famous Henri Bencolin, head of the Paris Police. To Bencolin, phantoms in old castles were figments of overactive imaginations. A very real murderer was afoot in Castle Skull, and it was up to Europe's foremost law enforcer to smoke out the deadly firebrand before he struck again.