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Overview: Paul Halter was born in Hagenau, Alsace, France in 1956. He is a best-selling novelist with over 30 titles to his credit, the vast majority being ‘locked-room’ or ‘impossible crime’. He is viewed as the natural successor to John Dickson Carr. This is the first of his novels to be published in English. His short story collection ‘The Night of the Wolf’ appeared in English in 2006 to critical acclaim.
Genre: Fiction > Mystery/Thriller
2. Death Invites You
Did Harold Vickers, the best-selling author of impossible crimes foresee his own death, or did he possibly even arrange it? When two guests knock on her door with dinner invitations, Mrs. Vickers is dumbfounded, for her husband has been locked in his study for several days. Yet there are sounds and cooking smells emanating from the room, and when the door is broken down, a dead body resembling her husband is slumped over the fully-laden dinner table with its hands and face in a pan in which the oil is still boiling. The room is sealed and nobody could have got out of the room without being seen, yet the food is still cooking. A mysterious half-filled bowl of water sits beneath the shuttered windows. What connection is there with the death of his own father, who also died slumped over the table and promised to return from the grave to revenge his own death? Or the Lonely Hearts killer who recently terrorized London before committing suicide.
4. The Madman’s Room
The room in Hatton Manor is sealed for a reason. It’s where Harvey Thorne went mad and placed a curse on the family. Now his great-nephew Harris wants to open it up, but his brother Brian, a clairvoyant, warns him against the idea. Harris is the first to perish, but there will be others. Each time, the victim has seen something unimaginable from the doorway and each time there has been a wet patch on the carpet in front of the fireplace. And yet it seems such an ordinary room … Hurst and Twist are on the trail of one of the most diabolically cunning murderers ever.
9. The Picture From the Past
What is there about the photograph of a street from a bygone era that obsesses John Braid? Why does he conceal his true profession from his newly-wed wife? And what, if any connection is there with the “acid bath murderer” who has already taken six lives? And why does a tale from the past show such eerie similarities to what is happening in the present?
11. The Vampire Tree
Newlywed Patricia Sheridan, the sympathetic if troubled heroine of the exquisite entry in Halter’s long-running… mystery series, has disturbing dreams about a tree in the garden of her husband’s ancestral home… An ingeniously constructed fair-play puzzle, which will be hard for golden age fans to put down.” When Roger Sheridan moves into his ancestral home in the village of Lightwood with his young wife Patricia, she soon starts to read the diary of Lavinia, whose fiancé died in impossible circumstances there a century before, strangled under a twisted tree in virgin snow. The tree is said to cover the grave of a witch who murdered young children. While Patricia tries to solve the ancient murder by reading the diary, someone starts murdering young children again and Patricia starts having nightmares where she sees the cursed tree killing Lavinia’s fiancé… It is left to Dr. Twist to unravel the horrors, old and new.
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