This book had such a promising start but once the main plot event happened and the police investigation gets under way, the story becomes ridiculously convoluted and stops making sense. It was almost as if Carr had a really novel idea and then suddenly balked at executing it. Instead of a well-thou...
I've been wanting to read The Hollow Man (aka The Three Coffins) for ages, but I've been stubbornly waiting until I found an older edition (mission: impossible), rather than buying a spiffy new reprint. But when Otto Penzler's American Mystery Classics released this spiffy new reprint with it's cla...
The Case of The Constant Suicides is a fun golden age mystery, set in the wonderful Scottish Highlands, with some fun and quirky characters and some weird scenes involving a fair amount of whisky. The one thing this book lacks though is a decent mystery. Let me rephrase that. The mystery is a dece...
Even though I was having eye problems last night, I stupidly stayed up to finish this book. It was so good. So many twists and turns and a perfect locked room murder mystery. It reminded me a bit of "The Tokyo Zodiac Murders" as well as "The Murder at the Vicarage" that you have something that is su...
Seriously, this is the book where John Dickson Carr, the master of locked room mysteries, pulls out all the stops. And he tells us as much right from the start: "To the murder of Professor Grimaud, and later the equally incredible crime in Cagliostro Street, many fantastic tems could be applied --...
I am gobsmacked by this book. I don't know where I picked up the notion that Carr wrote noir, but I cracked this book open expecting dames and hardboiled, hard drinking private dicks and speakeasies. It's hard to imagine how I could've been less accurate. The Hollow Man had gothic overtones, obliq...
I've actually been meaning to read a John Dickson Carr story for quite a while, so I was glad that Halloween Bingo gave me that chance! Is it any wonder that I ended up choosing the one that had a supernatural bent to it though? I'm not as much in love with mysteries as I probably should be normally...
The Hollow Man is supposed to be one of the best locked room mysteries of all time and it is surely a tricky case, that superintendant Hadley and Dr. Gideon Fell have to solve. But to be honest, I don´t particularly like this book. The plot is so convoluted that I as a reader haven´t had the slighte...
There were so many promising selections and recommendations from everyone for locked-room mysteries, I found it a little overwhelming: what to choose? Then I stumbled across this book at my library and it seemed the perfect answer; at 900+ pages I was certain to find a few good stories and all ...
Some excellent stories here, many different ways to use a locked room in a mystery, mostly murder, lots of variety. Still best read in bits cause some seemed to almost repeat.
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