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The Burning Court

John Dickson Carr

"When Edward Stevens, an editor at Herald and Son's publishing house, learns of the mysterious events that befell his neighbor's rich uncle, he shrugs off their seemingly supernatural circumstances. He's a logical man and doesn't give much credence to claims of a ghostly figure visiting the man before his death, or the witch's ladder discovered under his pillow after he passed. But as suspicions of strange murder begin to creep in, it becomes harder for Stevens to ignore their eerie potential. His neighbor breaks into the cement-sealed crypt where his uncle is buried, only to learn that the corpse has vanished. Witness testimony further implicates the intrusion of the spirit world into the affair of the murdered uncle, and unsettling echoes of the past into the present push things even further past Stevens' understanding of reality. Will the events be logically explained, or is there something unexplainable at work?"--Provided by publisher.

GenresLiterature & FictionMystery, Thriller & SuspenseMysteryTraditional DetectivesSupernaturalAmateur Sleuths

312 pages, 2 editions

English edition · First published 2025 by Penzler Publishers · ISBN 9781613166994

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2 editions

English

  • The Burning Court · Penzler Publishers · 2025 · ISBN 9781613166994 This page
  • The Burning Court · Simon & Schuster · 2025 · ISBN 9781613167007

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