Fire, Burn!
Author | : John Dickson Carr |
Publisher | : Open Road Media |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 2014-03-25 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781480472389 |
ISBN-13 | : 1480472387 |
Rating | : 4/5 (387 Downloads) |
Download or read book Fire, Burn! written by John Dickson Carr and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-03-25 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hurled back in time, a London police detective struggles to solve a nineteenth-century murder mystery in Golden Age master John Dickson Carr’s thrilling mystery novel A woman is killed in a well-lit corridor, dying before the eyes of three witnesses who, impossibly, detect no foul play. For more than a century, this baffling murder lies cold in the files of Scotland Yard until it is discovered by Detective-Superintendent John Cheviot, who yearns to apply modern scientific policing to the grisly old case. He is about to get his chance. Taking a cab to Scotland Yard, Cheviot steps out in front of Old Scotland Yard and sees a beautiful woman beckoning him. Suddenly it is 1829 and Cheviot is a member of the newly organized London police force. He might now have an opportunity to solve the most puzzling murder in the Yard’s history, but in a time before fingerprints and ballistic analysis, he will find police work to be far more baffling and brutal than he is used to.