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Lord Of The Sorcerers: Carter Dickson
Lord Of The Sorcerers: Carter Dickson
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Sir Henry Merrivale Mystery No. XVI. Set in the 1930s, a group of British archeologists discover the tomb of Herihor, high priest of Ammon and king of Egypt at the end of the Twentieth Dynasty. When Professor Gilray, one of the leaders of the expedition and the first to enter the tomb dies after being stung by a scorpion, the whispers of 'cursed' begin. Gilray's partner, the Earl of Severn, and his daughter, Lady Helen Loring, who was also a member of the expedition, are supposedly next on the list of the curse. When Helen is gifted with a bronze lamp from the tomb she is confronted by Alim Bey, an alleged mystic, who vows that she will never return to her own room with the lamp; she will be "blown to dust as if she never existed." And indeed, when she does return to her home with the lamp, she walks upstairs - and vanishes without a trace. There are no secret passages or doors and an exhaustive search fails to find any trace of Helen. The general fear raises another notch when a portrait of Helen's ancestor, Lady August, is also missing. Sir Henry Merrivale, a new acquantaince of Helen, rises to the occasion of solving the mystery in his own bewildering and eccentric manner. Fun fact: Carter Dickson's real name was John Dickson Carr; he wrote under both of these names as well as under Carr Dickson and Roger Fairbairn.
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Hardback; 1st reprint of 1st edition 1946; previous owner's name; light corner bumps to boards; tightly bound and clean within; scarce title, WhodunnitShare
