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Search - The Fourth Door: The Houdini Murders
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The Fourth Door The Houdini Murders Author: Someone has volunteered to spend the night in the haunted room at the Darnley House. The room is sealed by pressing a unique coin, selected moments before, on the wax. But when the door is re-opened, someone else?s body is lying there, the seals are unbroken, and the coin has not left the possession of the witness. Things are never what t... more »
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Ron K. (WhidbeyIslander) - Clinton, WA reviewed The Fourth Door: The Houdini Murders on + 244 more book reviews
Although the author has been unashamedly compared to John Dickson Carr, I found this entertaining book more like some of Anthony Boucher's impossible crime stories -- some of it is so outlandish that you have to smile and shake your head at the nerve of the author. It's well written (with no small credit to the translator John Pugmire) and has a bunch of interesting twists and turns. A welcome throw-back to the Golden Age of mystery telling.
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