Castle Skull Author:John Dickson Carr When the great magician Maleger was seeking a home that would be "appropriate" for his needs, he bought the eerie Castle Skull, perched high on a rocky crag above the Rhine, and transformed that ruin into a chamber of horrors. Not long after, this master of exceedingly black humor was reported to have died a sudden and inexplicable death. — Stra... more »ngely, it was not until seventeen years later that the world-famous sleuth Bencolin was summoned to the castle, and eventually revealed the awful truth in this morbid tale of twisted revenge.« less