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The Lost Gallows

It started when El Moulk's automobile roared crazily through a London fog, its driver dead as a herring. The car screeched to a stop in front of that creaky relic of ancient horrors, the Brimstone Club. Through its cavernous rooms and gaslit passages a murderer hunted victims for a private gallows. The calling cards of a notorious hangman, a miniature gibbet, a length of rope, and an inscription from the tomb of Egyptian kings warned El Moulk and his dazzling French mistress that death was on their trail. It was a perfect case for Bencolin, a detective who preferred fantastic murders.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 217
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780881842029
  • Genres
  • mystery, crime, fiction, detective
  • Release date
  • 1998