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The Plague Court Murders by John Dickson Carr is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
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There had always beenwhispers of ghosts when people spoke of the deserted and sinister oldmansion in Plague Court; and when Chief-Inspector Masters, genialghost-layer of the London police, broke into the little stone house inthe rear court, he found the body of Darworth, the medium, stabbed todeath on the floor. The door had been bolted from within and locked from without, and there was no other means of getting in or out. Yet therelay Darworth - and besides him the dagger that had belonged to PlagueCourt's most evil and persistent ghost. It was a question that was notto be answered that night either by Masters, or by any of that strangely assorted group which had congregated at Plague Court. They began to ask themselves if the ghost of Louis Playge, one time assistant to thehangman, had not really come back to haunt the slime and decay of thecourt that bore his name.
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- Author
- John Dickson Carr
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Published
- 1955
- Language
- EN
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Thriller, Thrillers, Fiction
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