The Burning Court
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While researching a book on nineteenth-century murders, Edward Stevens is shocked to find a picture of an executed murderess who is identical to his wife
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John Fowles’s 1969 novel The French Lieutenant’s Woman is famous for its two endings, but this Grand Master from the Golden Age of mystery fiction was there thirty-two years earlier. Carr specialized in impossible crimes of the locked-room variety, although he expanded the concept considerably.
The Burning Court cleverly combines a fictional contemporary murder plot with a sensational true case from seventeenth-century France in a way as intellectually daring as it is macabre — and utterly unexpected.
I began reading Carr as a teenager and have been re-reading him out of sheer fascination with (read: addiction to) his ingenuity…
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