It Walks By Night
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 First US edition (publ. Harper Brothers) | |
| Author | John Dickson Carr |
|---|---|
| Series | Henri Bencolin |
| Genre | Detective novel |
| Published | 1930 |
| Publisher | Harper & Brothers |
| Media type | |
It Walks By Night, first published in 1930, is the first detective novel by John Dickson Carr.[1] It introduced Carr's series detective Henri Bencolin.[2] This novel is a mystery of the type known as a locked-room mystery.[1] It has been compared to "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" by Edgar Allan Poe.[3]
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.
