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A year later Dr Fell will make his first public appearance in HagвЂ™s Nook, and, in 1934, Sir Henry Merrivale will debut in T he Plague Court Murders (published under the nom de plume of Carter Dickson), his two best-known fictional characters. The Corpse in the Waxworks makes up the so-called Bencolin Quartet, the most enigmatic part of CarrвЂ™s works according to Xavier Lechard. It comes after Castle Skull and precedes Poison in Jest, also published in 1932, a non-series novel narrated as well by Jeff Marle in which Herny Bencolin is only mentioned in passing. My Take: The Corpse in the Waxworks, like the three previous novels featuring Henri Bencolin, is narrated by Jeff Marle. 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. Surrounded by the eerie noises of the night, Bencolin prepares to enter the ill-fated waxworks, his associate Jeff Marle and the victimвЂ™s fiancГ© in tow. The museumвЂ™s proprietor, long perturbed by the unnatural vitality of his figures, claims that he saw one of them following the victim into the dark вЂ“ a lead that Henri Bencolin, head of the Paris police and expert of вЂimpossibleвЂ™ crimes, cannot possibly resist. Today she was found in the Seine, murdered. This new edition also includes вЂњThe Murder in Number FourвЂќ, a rare Inspector Bencolin short story, originally published in The Haverfordian, June 1928.Д«ook Description: Last night Mademoiselle DuchГЄne was seen heading into the Gallery of Horrors at the MusГ©e Augustin waxworks, alive.

#LONDON DEATH WAXWORKS SERIES#

The fourth John Dickson CarrвЂ™s novel featuring his series detective Henri Bencolin of the Parisian police. The Corpse in the Waxworks was originally published in 1932 by Harper & Brothers, New York and London, and it was published in the UK as The Waxworks Murder by Hamish Hamilton, London, in 1932. With an introduction by Martin Edwards, 2021. Esta entrada es bilingГјe, desplazarse hacia abajo para ver la versiГіn en espaГ±olД«ritish Library Publishing, 2021.

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