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The Corpse in the Waxworks

The Corpse in the Waxworks A Paris Mystery - British Library Crime Classics

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"'The purpose, the illusion, the spirit of a waxworks. It is an atmosphere of death. It is soundless and motionless... Do you see?' Last night Mademoiselle Duchêne was seen heading into the Gallery of Horrors at the Musée Augustin waxworks, alive. Today she was found in the Seine, murdered. The museum's proprietor, long perturbed by the unnatural vitality of his figures, claims that he saw one of them following the victim into the dark--a lead that Henri Bencolin, head of the Paris police and expert of 'impossible' crimes, cannot possibly resist. Surrounded by the eerie noises of the night, Bencolin prepares to enter the ill-fated waxworks, his associate Jeff Marle and the victim's fiancé in tow. Waiting within, beneath the glass-eyed gaze of a leering waxen satyr, is a gruesome discovery and the first clues of a twisted and ingenious mystery. First published in 1932 at the height of crime fiction's Golden Age, this macabre and atmosphe

Book information

ISBN: 9781464215438
Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press
Imprint: Poisoned Pen Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 813.52
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Weight: 272g
Height: 202mm
Width: 134mm
Spine width: 24mm