It Walks by Night (1930) by John Dickson Carr (PDF)

It Walks by Night (1930) by John Dickson Carr

“It Walks by Night” is John Dickson Carr’s first detective novel, published in 1930, introducing his French sleuth Henri Bencolin in a chilling locked-room mystery set in Paris. It remains a cornerstone of Golden Age crime fiction, often compared to Poe’s “The Murders in the Rue Morgue"

Table of contents 

- Patron of Gravediggers  

- It Walks by Night  

- The Head That Lay Under the Lamp  

- We Determine the Position of the Puppets  

- “Alice in Wonderland” (Carr loved literary allusions)  

- In the Black Parlours  

- An Appointment with the Worms  

- “We Talked of Poe” (direct nod to Edgar Allan Poe’s influence)  

- The Shadow of the Murderer  

- Bencolin Weaves (Henri Bencolin, Carr’s detective, is central here)  

- Swordplay  

- A Hand is Motionless Beneath the Cypress  

- Death at Versailles  

- “The Silver Mask”  

- When the Wall Fell  

- How a Man Spoke from a Coffin  

- We Hear the Name of the Killer  

- The Last Battle  

- The Hour of Triumph

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