The Eight of Swords Author:John Dickson Carr The dead man, shot with his own gun in a country house in Gloucestershire, holds clutched in his lifeless hand the Eight of Swords -- the card symbolic of Condemning Justice in the mystical tarot pack. — "I shall spare no pains to meet a murderer who knows about the eight of swords," says Dr. Gideon fell, tossing back his cape like a ba... more »ndit. And in due time, the meeting is arranged. But not before we meet a poltergeist who throws an inkpot in a vicar's face, an Anglican Bishop who dabbles in criminology and sometimes slides down banisters, an oily American with a bullet-proof vest, and a host of other characters -- some sinister, some amusing, some both.« less