Description
An eerie and sinister evocation of Parisian backstreets and seedy establishments, traversed by the familiar yet enigmatic Inspector Bencolin. Another enthralling literary puzzle from the beloved author of Castle Skull and It Walks By Night, both reissued as British Library Crime Classics. This book also features the bonus short story โThe Murder in Number Fourโ, an ingenious โlocked railway compartmentโ mystery set on board a haunted train.
โโThe purpose, the illusion, the spirit of a waxworks. It is an atmosphere of death. It is soundless and motionless... Do you see?โโ
Last night Mademoiselle Duchรชne was seen heading into the Gallery of Horrors at the Musรฉe Augustin waxworks, alive. Today she was found in the Seine, murdered. The museumโs proprietor, long perturbed by the unnatural vitality of his figures, claims that he saw one of them following the victim into the dark โ a lead that Henri Bencolin, head of the Paris police and expert of โimpossibleโ crimes, cannot possibly resist.
Surrounded by the eerie noises of the night, Bencolin prepares to enter the ill-fated waxworks, his associate Jeff Marle and the victimโs fiancรฉ in tow. Waiting within, beneath the glass-eyed gaze of a leering waxen satyr, is a gruesome discovery and the first clues of a twisted and ingenious mystery.
ISBN:9780060810399
