It Walks by Night

John Dickson Carr

Jan 2026 · Open Road Media

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In this Golden Age mystery from the Edgar Award–winning author, a French detective looks for a murderer among a closed circle of suspects in a Paris salon.

It should have been an open and shut case—but for Inspector Bencolin, it never is. A new bride discovers her groom beheaded in a locked room. Her ex-husband, an imprisoned psychopath who once tried to murder her, has escaped his prison cell. What's more, the killer has undergone a transformation that makes him impossible to find. Summoning a trusted ally, Bencolin sets out to find the sadistic slayer before he strikes again. . . .

In this Golden Age mystery from the Edgar Award–winning author, a French detective looks for a murderer among a closed circle of suspects in a Paris salon. It should have been an open and shut case—but for Inspector Bencolin, it never is. A new bride discovers her groom beheaded in a locked room...

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John Dickson Carr (1906–1977) was one of the most popular authors of Golden Age British-style detective novels. Born in Pennsylvania and the son of a US congressman, Carr graduated from Haverford College in 1929. Soon thereafter, he moved to England where he married an Englishwoman and began his mystery-writing career. In 1948, he returned to the US as an internationally known author. Carr received the Mystery Writers of America's highest honor, the Grand Master Award, and was one of the few Americans ever admitted into the prestigious, but almost exclusively British, Detection Club.

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