Blurbs for John Dickson Carr Mysteries
(Note: Books are listed alphabetically.)
(Cover scans of many Carr/Dickson mysteries are here.)
Titles with Carr Dickson byline
Bowstring Murders, The (1933)
originally published as by Carr Dickson
A. Pocket Books (2nd printing, March 1940)
(Front cover has "Carter Dickson" name.)
Cover price: not given
"One of the most finished and satisfying detective novels."
'The Bowstring Murders is a fast, realistic tale, with a fascinating group of characters. Against the dusty, historic background of Bowstring Castle, Carter Dickson plays out a tormentingly puzzling mystery to an exciting yet logical end.
'Beginning with a corpse found strangled in a room where the dust at the windows is undisturbed and the door was watched, a household of strangely assorted men and women watch a succession of tragic murders, helpless, unable to do anything until, in a thrilling climax, John Gaunt, a detective of the old school, solves the mystery of the missing gauntlets and the stolen bowstring.'
Note: When we look inside, we find that the lead quote is from the Jacksonville Times Union.
Now let's fast forward forty-nine years:
B. Zebra Books (1st printing, June 1989)
(Front cover has "Carr Dickson" name.)
Cover price: $3.50
MURDER BY MAIL
'Dotty old Lord Rayle doted on his priceless collection of medieval battle gear at Bowstring Castle. But some ironic knave who didn't give a hoot about chivalry donned a mail glove and strangled him with his own bowstring. When the dastard also struck down two of Lord Rayle's armor-bearers, things really came unhinged!
ENTER JOHN GAUNT
'The boozy-but-brilliant sleuth picked up the gauntlet flung down by the crafty challenger. The clues weren't linked and the facts didn't mesh -- but this champion was determined to find the chink in the murderer's armor!'
Titles with Carter Dickson byline
And So to Murder (1940)
as by Carter Dickson
Zebra Books (1st printing, December 1988)
Cover price: $3.50
LIGHTS! CAMERA! ACTION! DEATH!
'Film fan Monica Stanton, demi-demure daughter of a village vicar, wrote an X-rated bestselling novel and became a hot movie property herself. When she was offered a screenwriting stint, she happily zoomed in on the scene at Pineham Studios. What she hadn't figured on was starring in somebody else's sinister scenario -- as the victim!
ENTER SIR HENRY MERRIVALE
'Sir Henry likes the movies, too -- but the shrewd supersleuth definitely does not applaud the double feature of poison and pistol-shots produced by an unknown villain. He's going to take real pleasure in unreeling the deadly plot on the studio lot!'
Behind the Crimson Blind (1952)
as by Carter Dickson
Zebra Books (1st printing, March 1989)
Cover price: $3.50
A CRIMINAL SHOWS HIS METTLE
'They called him "Iron Chest," this bold-as-brass, world-class burgler who always carried an ornate iron chest while doing his stealing. He'd eluded coppers all over Europe, and now he was in Tangier, ready to forge ahead with new crimes. Ironically, though he'd been seen, no one knew what he really looked like, or how he always managed to vanish without a trace.
ENTER SIR HENRY MERRIVALE
'The world-famous supersleuth was supposed to be on vacation, getting bronzed in the sun. But once he smelled a challenge, he couldn't pass up this golden opportunity to prove he was more than a tin hero, and to refine his crook-catching techniques even more!'
Cavalier's Cup, The (1953)
as by Carter Dickson
Zebra Books (1st printing, September 1987)
Cover price: $3.50
SHADES OF DEATH
'It had to be the specter of the long-dead Cavalier Sir Byng Rawdon who ghosted into the Oak Room at Telford Old Hall one night, spirited the bejeweled Cavalier's Cup from the locked safe ... and left it standing on a table nearby. The room's windows had been firmly latched, the heavy doors double-bolted from the inside -- and a live witness had spent the entire night there and seen nothing!
ENTER SIR HENRY MERRIVALE
'But the famous detective Sir Henry Merrivale wasn't spooked by ghost stories -- in fact, impossible crimes always put him in high spirits. A very live intruder was haunting the Hall, and it was up to the redoubtable Sir Henry to unmask the ubiquitous bugbear before his deviltries materialized into a more murderous form of mischief!'
Curse of the Bronze Lamp, The (1945)
(a. k. a. Lord of the Sorcerers)
as by Carter Dickson ("John Dickson Carr" is placed in parentheses just below)
Carroll & Graf (2nd printing, 1986)
Cover price: $3.50
"Get it!" -- Saturday Review
'There is said to be a curse on anyone who takes the bronze lamp out of Egypt. Lady Helen Loring, of course, thinks such tales are sheer poppycock, and to prove her point, takes the lamp back to England and places it on the mantlepiece at Serven hall. Then she disappears just as the seer said she would. Clearly this is a case for Sir Henry Merrivale, and even he finds it the toughest nut he has ever tried to crack.'
"This baffling event is finally figured out by Sir Henry Merrivale who is at his best and funniest in this mystery." -- The New Yorker
Death in Five Boxes (1938)
as by Carter Dickson
A. Berkley Medallion Books (February 1964)
Cover price: 50 cents
PARTY FAVORS
'It was an odd party indeed. There were four people present, sitting equally space around a table, each with a drink, each the possessor of something strange:
'SIR DENNIS BLYSTONE had four watches in different pockets ...
'BONITA SINCLAIR was carrying two bottles of poison in her handbag ...
'BERNARD SCHUMANN had the ringing mechanism of an alarm clock in his right-hand pocket ...
'FELIX HAYE had a hole in his back ...
'While Chief Inspector Masters was investigating the case, he literally ran into gruff but lovable Sir Henry Merrivale. And once H. M. began running the show ...'
"We'd call this a dazzling exhibition of mystery ingenuity; a real triumph in the way of complications that would sink an ordinary thriller ... And you'll believe it." -- New York Herald Tribune
B. Belmont Tower Books (1973)
Cover price: 95 cents
STRANGE PARTY
'All four of them were drugged, a fifth was dead. They sat at a table in a strange room, all with mystifying clues on their persons. They were all wealthy and famous. They were all crypto-criminals. Were they sitting at a crime board meeting? It was a case that stumped even Sir Henry -- for a while.'
"If you want ingenuity of plot, airtight development and good, pungent writing, this is your meat." -- New Haven Journal-Courier
C. Bantam Books (March 1982)
Cover price: $2.25
MURDER IN A SURPRISE PACKAGE
'A cosy late evening party, a cocktail or two ... and a nasty murder. So begins the baffling case of the killing of Felix Haye. Five people had a motive, but not one had the opportunity to poison the drinks -- and poisoned they were. Chief Inspector Humphrey Masters clamors for clues from Egyptian mummies and clever clerks while Sir Henry Merrivale silently spots the legerdemain, and it's sure to be old Sir Henry who pulls out the missing pieces from this puzzling package of DEATH IN FIVE BOXES.
CARTER DICKSON
'Pen name for mystery great John Dickson Carr, he produces perfect plots peppered with red-herrings, prestidigitation, and "impossible" puzzles. His murders will out in English country estates and London townhouses, as uppercrust victims shuffle off this mortal coil in ingenious crimes that only that old curmudgeon Sir Henry Merrivale can solve.'
(Note: A map of the crime scene in Death in Five Boxes is here.)
Fatal Descent (1939)
(a. k. a. Drop to His Death)
as by Carter Dickson with John Rhode
Dover Books (1987)
Cover price: $4.95
"The elevator was perhaps six feet square by eight feet high, with steel walls painted to imitate bronze. Sir Ernest Tallant sat very quietly in the rear right-hand corner, fitted into the angle of the wall. His legs were outthrust stiffly, his back bent a little forward; and the brim of the rakish gray hat shaded his face. He might have been a grotesque parody of Little Jack Horner, if it had not been for the widening bloodstains on the left breast of his jacket."
'As it turns out, Sir Ernest Tallant, publishing magnate, is quite dead -- murdered in his own private elevator by a bullet through the heart. Yet he had been alive -- and alone -- when he entered the lift on the fifth floor -- and the elevator had not stopped on the way down! Nor was any weapon found. This is the baffling puzzle set before Police Surgeon Dr. Horatio Glass and Chief Inspector David Hornbeam, who need every bit of acumen they possess to solve this enigmatic variation on the classic "locked room" mystery.
'For one thing, Tallant's publishing empire harbors any number of suspects with plausible motives for the murder. Bill Lester, for one, editor of Tallant's Death Circle of Detective Novels. Lester was well aware of Tallant's displeasure with Lester's plans to marry his niece, Patricia Tallant. Moreover, that exceptionally attractive young lady is under suspicion as well, for she is the sole heiress to Tallant's estate. Helen Lake can't be ruled out either; as Tallant's long-time personal secretary she stood to gain a large legacy upon the mogul's death. Then there was Vincent Pluckley, the head mechanic and the only one with access to the elevator shaft ... and many other possible malefactors.
'In this rare -- and hard-to-find -- collaboration between two great mystery writers, the sheer number of suspects complicates matters as does a second murder and the cryptic clues offered by a string of stolen objects: a forty-five revolver, a rare volume of the original Spectator papers, a toy airplane ... a little traveling clock. Faced with this material, Dr. Glass is an elegant theoretician, a man of supple imagination who can envisage any number of ways a crime could have been committed; Hornbeam is the hard-headed realist who makes use of his friend's flights of speculation to zero in on the most probable culprit and the exact "how" of the homicide. Their good-natured verbal sparring is one of the most delightful features of this carefully crafted whodunit.
'Carter Dickson is a pseudonymn for John Dickson Carr, author of numerous well-received mystery novels and a specialist in the "locked room" genre. John Rhode was the creator of the eminent sleuth, Dr. Lancelot Priestley, and a master at devising unusual methods of murder. They have teamed up in this volume to produce a deftly written novel described as "thoroughly and extremely puzzling" by The New York Times.'
Fear is the Same (1956)
as by Carter Dickson
Bantam Books (October 1959)
Cover price: 35 cents
MANY MEN HELD HER BODY -- DID ANY MAN HOLD HER HEART?
'The answer to this might be a clue to the solution of a brutal murder -- a beautiful young woman strangled in her own bed in the dead of night.
'The plush bedroom showed signs of a lovers' meeting -- the curtains tightly drawn, a wine bottle on the table, the lady in her most provocative dressing gown.
'Here is an intricately constructed novel of murderous intrigue and evil hidden within a facade of feminine wiles -- by the famous master of the sinister, Carter Dickson alias John Dickson Carr.'
On the front cover:
'In the eerie yellow candlelight of Regency London a murderer moved slowly, inexorably, toward his waiting victim.'
Gilded Man, The (1942)
as by Carter Dickson
International Polygonics (1st printing, November 1988)
Cover price: $4.95
NEW YEAR'S MURDER
'Victorian gothic and definitely spooky was the outer aspect of financier Dwight Stanhope's country place, Waldmere. Inside (baroque cum Brighton Pavilion cum you-name-it), it had always been a friendly, hospitable place. Until one wintry week, during a New Year's house party, when the atmosphere seemed mystifyingly disagreeable to the people gathered there -- three very attractive women and several stalwart men.
'Then, in from the snowy drifts, roared Sir Henry Merrivale, too late to stay a murderer's hand, but not too late to lay the culprit by the heels -- with all the wit, sound, fury, and panache that are H. M.'s alone.
'THE GILDED MAN is a most unusual novel coming as it does from author Carter Dickson a/k/a John Dickson Carr. It does not contain a single locked-room puzzle.'
Graveyard to Let, A (1949)
as by Carter Dickson
Zebra Books (1st printing, March 1988)
Cover price: $3.50
DEATH IN DEEP WATER
'No one took American arts patron Frederick Manning seriously when he made his less-than-fond farewells at his Westchester, New York estate. But the laughter stopped the next day when, in front of witnesses, the accused embezzler leapt into the family swimming pool, vanishing without a trace just two strokes ahead of the arriving police.
ENTER SIR HENRY MERRIVALE
'The embezzlement charge doesn't hold water for visiting British sleuth Sir Henry Merrivale, especially when his old friend Manning's bleeding body turns up in a nearby abandoned graveyard. Something rotten is definitely afloat, and Sir Henry gets into the swim of things. Come hell or high water, the portly detective vows not to rest until an aquatic assassin is all washed up!'
He Wouldn't Kill Patience (1944)
as by Carter Dickson
A. Berkley Medallion (December 1966)
Cover price: 60 cents
'HE WOULDN'T HARM A FLY
let alone kill Patience, his extremely valuable new snake. "He" was Ned Benton, director of a London zoo, and his daughter flatly refuses to believe that he would ever have committed suicide in such a way as to endanger the reptile.
'An eerie setting, the zoo after dark, for suicide, murder, or whatever it was. And it involves a weird cast of characters, including two young magicians, who are trying hard to keep alive a family feud, in spite of an intense mutual attraction.
'But the supreme sleight of hand, as usual, is that of Sir Henry Merrivale when, in a hair-raising climax, he confronts a two-legged monster in a reptile house a-wriggle with lethal specimens.'
B. International Polygonics (May 1988)
Cover price: $4.95
Note: IPL, bless 'em, decided to ditch the blurb and put a map -- in full color -- of the zoo in its stead, thus producing their own version of a Dell Mapback.
Judas Window, The (1938)
(a. k. a The Crossbow Murder)
as by Carter Dickson
International Polygonics (1st printing, April 1987)
Cover price: $4.95
Note: Another IPL mapback showing the layout at 12 Grosvenor Street, above which appear these words in purple and red type:
'The door was locked. The room was sealed. The murderer got in and out through the Judas Window!'
My Late Wives (1946)
as by Carter Dickson
Zebra Books (1st printing, June 1988)
Cover price: $3.50
DEATH STAGE CENTER
'British stage star Bruce Ransom was thrilled with the anonymously authored script sent to him concerning the grisly exploits of accused multiple wife-murderer Roger Belway. But a very nasty homicide occurring in the small town of Aldebridge soon after the illustrious actor's incognito arrival could mean only one of two things: either the real Belway had decided to play the provinces after an eleven-year hiatus ... or Ransom's private rehearsals for his upcoming theatrical triumph had gotten somewhat out of hand!
ENTER SIR HENRY MERRIVALE
'This latest murder seems to closely follow the plot of Ransom's newly acquired star vehicle, so famed sleuth Sir Henry Merrivale quickly gets into the act. It appears an elusive psychopath is about to open a deadly extended engagement. But the great detective is determined to stop the show and bring down the final curtain on the notorious lady-killer's gruesome comeback!'
Night at the Mocking Widow (1950)
as by Carter Dickson
Berkley Medallion (January 1969)
Cover price: 60 cents
THE MOCKING WIDOW
'On the outskirts of the English village of Stoke Druid, an ominous-looking rock formation -- labeled in the past by some imaginative soul "The Mocking Widow" -- has more recently given its name to a very alive and very vicious writer of anonymous letters.
'Although the villagers try hard to pretend that everything is normal, terror is spreading throughout Stoke Druid, threatening the peace, sanity and lives of its inhabitants.
'At this point, a figure just as formidable as, and a whole lot fatter than the Widow rolls into view. It's Sir Henry Merrivale, investigator extraordinaire, who proceeds to pull one of the neatest coups of his flamboyant career -- and to solve a classic locked-room mystery in the process.'
"First rate." -- Saturday Review
Nine -- and Death Makes Ten (1940)
(a. k. a. Murder in the Submarine Zone)
as by Carter Dickson
International Polygonics (1st printing, October 1987)
Cover price: $4.95
ACROSS THE ATLANTIC
'January 1940. The early days of the war. The liner Edwardic sets sail from New York to a "British port," its name withheld for security, on the other side of the submarine infested Atlantic. Formerly a luxury ship, the Edwardic has been converted into a munitions carrier. Because of the inherent danger with such cargo, the vessel -- although fully staffed -- carries only nine passengers.
'One passenger is a victim. A second is a murderer whose bloody fingerprints are found at the scene of the crime.
'The solution should be simple, opines a traveling criminologist. Fingerprint everyone on board and see whose prints match those in the blood-stained cabin.
'Not so simple. Each person's prints are taken; none matches those found.
'Nine passengers and death makes ten! Fortunately, the ninth passenger is none other than Sir Henry Merrivale.
'For this 1940 novel, author Carter Dickson (a/k/a John Dickson Carr) drew on his own experiences crossing the Atlantic at the outset of World War II.'
Peacock Feather Murders, The (1937)
(a. k. a. The Ten Teacups)
as by Carter Dickson
A. Berkley Medallion (December 1963)
Cover price: 50 cents
THE POLICE RECEIVE AN INVITATION
"There will be ten teacups at number 4, Berwick Terrace, W. 8, on Wednesday, July 31, at 5 p.m. precisely. The presence of the metropolitan police is respectfully requested."
'On the surface there would appear nothing strange in the note to give Scotland Yard any uneasiness, except that it called to mind a similar incident -- one that Scotland Yard wished to forget ...
'Chief Inspector Masters could do only two things -- completely surround the house, and call in his old friend, the incredible Sir Henry Merrivale.
'But in spite of the precautions, in spite of having their own man only a few feet away from the murderer -- or was he to be the victim? -- at 5 p.m. PRECISELY a murder was committed and no one knew how or why ...'
"The story is an absolute top-notcher. Both H. M. and Carter Dickson have surpassed themselves and that took some doing." -- New York Times
Inside the front cover:
NO ONE IN THE ROOM -- except the dead man
'Pollard knew that no one had gone out by the door. He went around the room slowly but found nobody because nobody was there. There were only two sets of dusty footprints -- his own and those that led to the upturned toes of the dead man.
'Then he went to the window and shouted: "He got out of the window!"
'Sergeant Hollis' voice came up in a faint yell. "No, he didn't. Nobody got out of that window."'
B. International Polygonics (1st printing, October 1987)
Cover price: $4.95
THE MURDERER VANISHES
'A man's body sprawled at full length on the floor. He had been shot twice (once in the back of the head; once in the back) at close range with a revolver which lay beside him.
'The murderer must still be in the room. Detective-Sergeant Pollard had been guarding the only door and knew no one had gone through it. And the one window was forty feet above the street.
'Pollard looked around the room; but he found nobody because nobody was there. In the thick pile of the black carpet were only two sets of dusty footprints -- Pollard's own and those of the victim.
'Pollard ran to the window. "He got out the window!" he shouted to Sergeant Hollis who had been watching across the street.
'"No, he didn't," came Hollis's voice in a faint yell. "Nobody got out that window."'
"An absolute top-notcher. Both H. M. and Carter Dickson have surpassed themselves, and that took some doing." -- Isaac Anderson, The New York Times Book Review, August 1, 1937
Plague Court Murders, The (1934)
as by Carter Dickson
International Polygonics (1st edition, June 1990)
Cover price: $5.95
OUT OF THE ORDINARY
'They hired psychic Roger Darworth to exorcise the Plague Court ghost.
'The ghost of Plague Court was no ordinary ghost. Hardly. Reportedly a malevolent soul on the lower plane, it was always watchful, always cunning, always waiting to possess a living body and to exchange that body's weak brain for its own just as it had done since its first appearance in 1665.
'The exorcist, Roger Darnworth, was no ordinary exorcist. Of course not. Actually, he was a first-rate fraud who had been under police surveillance for months.
'It follows then that the exorcism of Plague Court was no ordinary exorcism. Naturally--or perhaps supernaturally--not after the exorcist was found brutally murdered in a small stone house with its door both padlocked and bolted, its windows barred, and with no secret entrances. And the murder weapon? Far, far from ordinary. It was an ancient knife which was said to be the property of the Plague Court ghost.
'By now we all know that Sir Henry Merrivale is no ordinary detective. Here he is in his first recorded appearance. And THE PLAGUE COURT MURDERS is not an ordinary mystery novel. How could it be? After all, it is the first book to bear the name of Carter Dickson, a/k/a John Dickson Carr, and by either name a most extraordinary author.'
Punch and Judy Murders, The (1937)
as by Carter Dickson
International Polygonics (1st printing, May 1988)
Cover price: $4.95
(In bright red type):
HOW CAN A DEAD MAN BE FOUND IN TWO PLACES AT THE SAME TIME?
Sir Henry Merrivale explains.
"Galloping action, feverish good humor, some mysterious 'dancing lights,' and a twisted plot that unravels nicely."
-- Saturday Review 1937
CARTER DICKSON IS JOHN DICKSON CARR
Red Widow Murders, The (1935)
as by Carter Dickson
International Polygonics (1st printing, November 1988)
Cover price: $4.95
A ROOM THAT KILLS
'In Lord Mantling's ancestral mansion is a room known as the Red Widow's Chamber. Its first victim, his face black with death, was found there in 1803. Other strange deaths occurred within, and in 1876 the room was locked and sealed with six inch screws through the door jams (sic). Nobody has set foot in it since. Nobody wanted to. Until the present -- 1934.
'Now eight men and a woman gather around a table for a sinister experiment. Playing cards are drawn from a freshly opened pack. A small, inoffensive man named Bender draws the ace of spades and is escorted solemnly into the Red Widow's Chamber. The door is closed. Eight people tensely wait. They call out to Bender every quarter hour and hear his muffled answer.
'Two hours pass, the experiment is over, and Mantling calls for Bender to come out. When no one answers, the door is opened and Bender is discovered lying on his back, murdered. He has been dead for more than an hour.
'How could he have answered the calls? Can a room kill?'
Seeing is Believing (1941)
as by Carter Dickson
Zebra Books (1st printing, March 1990)
Cover price: $3.50
GRAND DELUSION
'Everyone saw beautiful Vicki Fane plunge a dagger into her horrid husband's heart -- but she wasn't the murderer. Everyone knew that dashing Captain Frank Sharpless had served his lady love strychnine-laced grapefruit -- but he wasn't the poisoner. Everyone figured that "Doctor" Richard Rich's hypnotism act, performed for the amusement of the dinner guests at the Fane household, was just an illusion. But the disillusioning fact was that the corpses kept piling up!
ENTER SIR HENRY MERRIVALE
'The canny, cantankerous supersleuth hated to have to interrupt the writing of his scandalous autobiography in order to solve a baffling case. But he just couldn't resist the challenge of taking the hype out of hypnotism and the hoke out of hocus-pocus. And before he'd let a mesmerizing maniac wreak havoc with his perilous parlor tricks, Sir Henry swore to stop the sinister spread of assassination by hallucination--and let the evil eyes have it!'
She Died a Lady (1943)
as by Carter Dickson
Zebra Books (1st printing, December 1987)
Cover price: $3.50
FOOTNOTE TO DEATH
'Beautiful Rita Wainright and young Barry Sullivan walked down the footpath to the edge of the seaside cliff -- and never came back. Suicide by drowning, the police decreed ... until the bodies were washed ashore. Each had been killed by a bullet fired at close range, and the double suicide was suddenly a case of double murder.
ENTER SIR HENRY MERRIVALE
'The only footprints to be found at the top of the cliff belonged to the victims, but the famous detective Sir Henry Merrivale didn't believe in a gunman who could walk through the air. A very down-to-earth killer was on the loose, and it was up to Sir Henry to bring the footpad to heel and take him in tow before he had time to make tracks for his next victim!'
Skeleton in the Clock, The (1948)
as by Carter Dickson
A. Berkley Medallion (December 1967)
Cover price: 60 cents
(In bright red type):
THE SKELETON IN THE CLOCK
'Twenty years between "accidents" is not long enough to lull the suspicions of crafty old Sir Henry Merrivale or bury, permanently, a family secret.
'First come three post cards to stir things up, and then the Old Man is off and away -- in a case that offers the usual Merrivale high speed action, both rude and gallant gestures, and bright young love -- and finds H. M. triumphant at the end -- over the most vicious murderer he has ever encountered.'
B. Belmont Tower (1973)
Cover price: 95 cents
TIME WILL TELL
'The fact that two so-called "accidental" deaths happened twenty years apart did not lull the suspicions of crafty old Sir Henry -- it only stimulated his curiosity. And when Sir Henry gets curious he begins to dig. This time he digs up a well-kept family secret that is both bizarre and gory. The secret lay with the skeleton in the clock.
'Moving fast, with rude and gallant gestures, Sir Henry triumphs over the most vicious murderer he has ever encountered.'
C. Bantam Books (February 1982)
Cover price: $2.25
A FOOL'S ERRAND
'Spend a night in a prison's execution shed to see if dead men leave behind earthbound souls? Hardly the way to solve a twenty-year-old murder, but --"Lord love a duck!" -- it's a bloody good way to invite a new one. Not that Sir Henry Merrivale agrees. Chief Inspector Humphrey Masters may see the supernatural hand in every human foible; Sir Henry only considers the clues -- a skeleton in a clock, a pink flash, a face in an upstairs window.'
White Priory Murders, The (1934)
as by Carter Dickson
Bantam Books (April 1982)
Cover price: $2.50
DEAD AMONG THE STUART FINERY
'Who the dickens would murder lovely Marcia Tait, Sir Henry Merrivale's favorite cinema sex goddess? An exceedingly rummy business, to be sure. Marcia bludgeoned to death in the "Queen's Mirror" pavilion, the 17th-century trysting place of King Charles II and Lady Castlemaine. "Lummy, what a plum!" -- with but one set of footprints in the newfallen snow leading to the pavilion and none leading away, Detective Inspector Humphrey Masters is baffled. Not to worry, though. Sir Henry has the situation well in hand. Or so it would appear. Until another murder occurs, right beneath the portly sleuth's pudgy nose.'
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