Jan 6, 2010
The Burning Court is an unusual novel—a cross between a traditional detective story and an occult horror tale. Without the epilogue, it is a detective novel similar to John Dickson Carr’s other works, in which the murderer is caught and the woman who was wrongly suspected is vindicated. The epilogue unexpectedly brings in the supernatural as the true explanation, turning the story into a horror tale.
Edward Stevens, an editor with a New York publishing house, is working on a book about nineteenth cen-tury murderers when he finds a photograph of Marie...
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