The Lost Gallows. A Henri Bencolin Mystery. Illustrated

Dark streets, sinister secrets, and an executioner’s shadow hanging over the past — The Lost Gallows is one of John Dickson Carr’s most atmospheric early detective novels featuring the brilliant and enigmatic French investigator Henri Bencolin.

When an Englishman is found brutally murdered in Paris under circumstances both baffling and theatrical, the crime seems tied to an old legend about a vanished gallows and a forgotten execution. The victim’s final movements lead through a maze of nigh...