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The Corpse in the Waxworks (Henri Bencolin, Bk 4)
The Corpse in the Waxworks - Henri Bencolin, Bk 4 Author:John Dickson Carr M. Bencolin was most assuredly not looking for murder in the sepulchral gloom of Augustin's famous was museum. His surprise, then, was formidable when he discovered the body of a young girl, stabbed in the back, lying grotesquely in the wax arms of the Satyr of the Seine. — From the eerie green light of Augustin's, the peer of French Dete... more »ctives is led across the Paris night to the notorious club of the Silver Key, whose masked members revel in carefully planned orgies. In the connection between the musty was museum and these nocturnal debauches lies an astounding and terror filled revelation.
Originally published in 1932 as "The Waxworks Murders."« less