It Walks By Night

1930 novel by John Dickson Carr
It Walks By Night
First US edition
(publ. Harper Brothers)
AuthorJohn Dickson Carr
SeriesHenri Bencolin
GenreDetective novel
Published1930
PublisherHarper & Brothers
Media typePrint

It Walks By Night, first published in 1930, is the first detective novel by John Dickson Carr which features for the first time Carr's series detective Henri Bencolin. This novel is a mystery of the type known as a whodunit.

Synopsis

A closely guarded room in a Paris gambling house, a mangled body on the floor, a severed head staring from the centre of the carpet.. someone had entered that room, killed and escaped all within ten minutes.

Ten minutes after the Duc de Saligny entered the card room, the police burst in – and found he had been murdered. Both doors to the card room had been watched yet the murderer had gone in and out without being seen by anyone.

References

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Works by John Dickson Carr
Sir Henry Merrivale series
Novels
Short stories
  • Merrivale, March and Murder (1991)
Gideon Fell series
Novels
Short story
collections
Henri Bencolin series
Novels
Short stories
  • "The Shadow of the Goat"
  • "The Fourth Suspect"
  • "The End of Justice"
  • "Murder in Number Four"
Other novels
As John Dickson Carr
As Carter Dickson
Other works


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