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Title: if you are just starting to read Carr, don't start here....
Review: I love John Dickson Carr's wild plots and atmoshperic settings, but I simply cannot recommend this particular novel. It was written at a time when the author was suffering increasing health problems, and this is simply not up to the caliber of his "golden age" detective novels. This book almost struck me like an attempt by someone other than Carr, someone without his considerable talents, to immitate the type of books Carr was writing at the height of his career.If you have not read a John Dickson Carr book, start with something more substantial than this. I would recommend The Lost Gallows, or Hag's Nook, as a good starting place to become acquainted with this giant from the golden age of the puzzle story.
