The Lost Gallows Author:John Dickson Carr Death's Calling Card.... — Through the cavenous rooms and strange gaslit passages of the famous Brimstone club a murderer hunts down victims for his own private gallows... — One of the victims is El Moulk, marked for death by an ancient Egyptian curse. In London, he receives Jack Ketch's greeting card -- the card of the hangman... — Here was the pe... more »rfect case for Bencolin, the detective who preferred fantastic murders -- and always got them.