A snowbound group of people in the north woods must deal with a supernatural killer unleashed by a seance they hold. Locked rooms and impossible murders seem to be explainable only by believing that the dead can come back to take revenge on the living.
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Grave, classical in form, intimate and earnest.
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Hake Talbot
- First published
- 1985
- Pages
- 184
- Publisher
- Penzler Publishers, Ramble House, Intl Polygonics Ltd
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781605433592
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> Hake Talbot is a pen name of the American writer <a href=https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL32533A/Henning_Nelms/>Henning Nelms</a> (30 November 1900 - May 1986). Nelms used the Talbot name to write just two detective novels, *The Hangman’s Handyman* in 1942 and the highly regarded locked-room mystery *Rim of the Pit* in 1944. >Nelms reserved his real name for writing non-fiction about showmanship (his chief occupation was as a stage magician). He was the author of the book *Magic and Showmanship: A Handbook for Conjurers* (1969).
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