The Four False Weapons Author:John Dickson Carr Marked with a peculiarly horrible wound, Rose Klonec's corpse is discovered by her former sweetheart, Ralph Douglas, in a villa near Paris. All the evidence seems to incriminate Ralph; the maid even swears he stayed with Rose on the night of the murder. Then the famous French sleuth, Bencolin, emerges from retirement to handle the case. He so... more »on complicates matters further by saying he can prove who the killer is - but that he doesn't believe it! The trail of confusing clues finally leads to a meeting of the card-playing Corpses' Club and "when the corpses get jolly well under way they play games that would make your hair curl."