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The Burning Court (1937)

The Burning Court (1937)

Mystery

John Dickson Carr

Year: 1937
Authors: John Dickson Carr
Print type: BOOK

Description:

A murder mystery featuring various potentially supernatural elements A classic tale combining hints of the supernatural and an 'impossible' murder. The death of Miles Despard looks simple enough. But then how does the housekeeper see a woman walk through a wall? And how could someone walk through a door that had been bricked up two hundred years ago? To all intents and purposes, it looks as if someone has come from the past to commit the murder, but could that really be the case? Surely not . . .