About this item
Carr considered this novel one of his best works, and it is easy to see why when experiencing its ingenious plot delivered with an astounding pace and masterfully drawn characters including none other than the great detective Dr. Gideon Fell."It almost seemed that the murder, if it was a murder, must have been committed by someone who could rise up unsupported in the air ... "When Miles Hammond is invited to a meeting of the Murder Club in London, he is met instead with just two other guests and is treated to a strange tale of an impossible crime in France years before; the murder of a man on a tower with only one staircase, under watch at the time at which the murder took place. With theories of levitating vampires abounding, the story comes home to Miles when he realises that the librarian he has just hired for his home is none other than Fay Seton, a woman at the heart of this bizarre and unsolved past murder.
About the Author
, Carr Dickson and Roger Fairbairn. John Dickson Carr was born in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, in 1906. , his first published detective novel, featuring the Frenchman Henri Bencolin, was published in 1930. Apart from Dr Fell, whose first appearance was in in 1933, Carr's other series detectives (published under the nom de plume of ) were the barrister Sir Henry Merrivale, who debuted in
