The Hollow Man (Classic Crime S.) - Softcover

Carr, John Dickson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140083065 ISBN 13: 9780140083064

Publisher: Penguin, 1986

Synopsis

Professor Charles Grimaud was explaining to some friends the natural causes behind an ancient superstition about men leaving their coffins when a stranger entered and challenged Grimaud's scepticism. The stranger asserted that he had risen from his own coffin and that four walls meant nothing to him. He added, 'My brother can do more... he wants your life and will call on you!' The brother came during a snowstorm, walked through the locked front door, shot Grimaud and vanished. The tragedy brought Dr Gideon Fell into the bizarre mystery of a killer who left no footprints.

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Review:

John Dickson Carr was a master of the locked room mystery. In The Hollow Man, one of his earliest novels, written when he was just 29, a murder takes place in circumstances that make it seem impossible for the killer to have escaped undetected. ... The sheer ingenuity of the plot is a delight. (DAILY MAIL)

Carr's 1935 locked door mystery still rivals any present day crime novel and its status as a textbook for writers in the genre means it is a necessary read (BIG ISSUE IN THE NORTH)

Book Description:

The most famous of all locked-room mysteries

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0140083065
• ISBN 13: 9780140083064
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256