Henri Bencolin, who is described in the book just prior to this one, The Lost Gallows as "a tall and lazy Mephisto," as well as " juge d'instruction of the Seine, the head of the Paris Police and the most dangerous man in Europe." In the present book, he is also noticed as a "man-hunting dandy," with an associate by the name of Jeff Marle who also serves as narrator. The Corpse in the Waxworks throws yet another curveball: it's set in France, and features M. He did spend a good twenty years there before returning back to the US, and according to most biographies, was one of only a very few American writers to be admitted into the Detection Club. More often than not I tend to forget that John Dickson Carr was an American author since he wrote so many novels set in the UK. That truly fits the atmosphere, the setting, and the overall action in The Corpse in the Waxworks. "much of the wanton, much of the bizarre, something of the terrible, and not a little of that which might have excited disgust" Words like "grotesque," "phantasm," "delirious fancies," leap out immediately, but it's more Poe's conjuring of Words like "grotesque," "phantasm," "delirious fancies," leap out immediately, but it's more Poe's conjuring of "much of the wanton, much of the bizarre, something of the terrible, and not a little of that which might have excited disgust" that truly fits the atmosphere, the sett yikes - what a book!Ī quotation from Poe's "Masque of the Red Death" serves as one of two epigraphs for this book and as it turns out, it is beyond appropriate. A quotation from Poe's "Masque of the Red Death" serves as one of two epigraphs for this book and as it turns out, it is beyond appropriate.
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