The Burning Court
The Burning Court by John Dickson Carr, published by Penzler Publishers on November 4, 2025, is a captivating exploration of mystery and the supernatural. This edition spans 312 pages and is presented in English. The narrative follows Edward Stevens, an editor at a publishing house, who initially dismisses the strange occurrences surrounding his neighbor’s wealthy uncle, including ghostly sightings and a peculiar witch’s ladder found after the uncle’s death. As the story unfolds, Stevens grapples with the unsettling possibility of murder intertwined with supernatural elements.
Readers will encounter a blend of traditional detective work and eerie suspense as Stevens confronts the inexplicable. The plot thickens when his neighbor discovers that the uncle’s corpse has mysteriously disappeared from its sealed crypt, leading to witness testimonies that suggest a haunting presence. This atmospheric tale delves into themes of reality versus the supernatural, challenging Stevens’ logical worldview. The Burning Court invites readers into a world where the boundaries between the living and the spirit realm blur, showcasing Carr’s mastery of the locked room mystery.
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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? The answer lies in the pages of this atmospheric and haunting puzzler, which finds Carr, the master of the locked room mystery, operating at the peak of his powers.
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