by Peter Noble, John Dickson Carr
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...
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...
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