Paul Halter

• Nov-2006
• / Suspense
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• Collected here are ten superb tales by today's master of the seemingly impossible crime, the Frenchman Paul Halter. Coffins dancing in a hermetically sealed crypt, a tunnel that murders people, a werewolf killer who leaves no trace on the sn...

• Dec-2010
• / Mystery
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We are in Victorian London, with its gaslight and fog, not long after the Jack the Ripper Murders. A mysterious cloaked figure wearing a hideous, leprous mask and sleigh-bells is stalking the countryside outside the capital, committing murder whereve...

• Sep-2011
• / Mystery
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Someone has volunteered to spend the night in the haunted room at the Darnley House. The room is sealed by pressing a unique coin, selected moments before, on the wax. But when the door is re-opened, someone else’s body is lying there, the seals ar...

• Dec-2011
• / Mystery
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A man dies of thirst in an isolated shed with a full carafe of water beside him. Another is stabbed in a pergola surrounded by a sea of mud, but there are no other footprints. People are dying at an alarming rate, people with no apparent connection t...

• Jun-2012
• / Mystery
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A famous actor is sent to his death from a high window; eye witnesses say he was pushed by an invisible hand, thus mimicking another murder committed in the same house more than fifty years earlier. Three local girls have also died in similar inexpli...

• Dec-2012
• / General Fiction
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Characters dressed in the garb of 17th century plague doctors roaming alleyways haunted by Jack the Ripper...A plague victim vanishing off a stretcher under the noses of witnesses a few feet away...The corpse of the same victim reappearing under the ...

• Jun-2013
• / Mystery
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The murderer known as the “Suitcase Killer,” who has been causing panic by leaving dismembered bodies in London’s railway stations, vanishes into thin air when cornered cutting up his latest victim. The detective team of Dr. Twist and Inspector...

• Nov-2013
• / Mystery
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#2 in Publisher's Weekly Top Mysteries of 2013http://best-books.publishersweekly.com/pw/best-books/2013/mystery.In this fascinating novel, one of the masters of impossible crime fiction takes on one of the greatest criminals of all time. Sticking scr...

• Jun-2014
• / Mystery
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The Invisible CircleSeven people receive invitations to a ‘singular experience’ during a weekend in Cornwall in a castle reputedly built on the site of King Arthur’s, and situated on an island tenuously connected to the mainland. The sinister h...

• Dec-2014
• / Mystery
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What is there about the photograph of a street from a bygone era that obsesses John Braid? Why does he conceal his true profession from his newly-wed wife? And what, if any connection is there with the “acid bath murderer” who has already taken s...

• Jul-2015
• / Mystery
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In its starred review, Publisher’s Weekly says: “Once again Halter crafts a completely logical and plausible explanation for the fantastic.” It is 1902 and in London’s infamously haunted East End there are rumours of a strange passageway whic...

• Jan-2016
• / Mystery
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Did Harold Vickers, the best-selling author of impossible crimes foresee his own death, or did he possibly even arrange it? When two guests knock on her door with dinner invitations, Mrs. Vickers is dumbfounded, for her husband has been locked in his...

• Nov-2016
• / Cozy Mystery
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The review in Publishers Weekly’s Top Mystery/Thrillers 2016 says: “Newlywed Patricia Sheridan, the sympathetic if troubled heroine of the exquisite entry in Halter’s long-running… mystery series, has disturbing dreams about a tree in the gar...

• Jul-2017
• / Cozy Mystery
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• Sep-2018
• / Mystery
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“… brilliant…. Halter heaps one confounding occurrence on top of another before resolving them all fairly… palpably creepy… Impossible crime fans are in for a treat.” Publishers Weekly The fairy-like Stella Deverell is a girl of many gift...

• Aug-2020
• / Mystery
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Set in 1924, Halter's exceptionally clever... Owen Burns mystery... finds Burns investigating a series of bizarre events in the English village... which has been haunted for centuries by a specter known as the White Lady, whose appearances have alway...

• Jul-2023
• / Mystery
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It is 1922 and Dr. Alan Twist, an authority in the occult sciences and the paranormal, has been invited by the lord of Cranston Manor in a remote corner of Cornwall to investigate a series of hauntings.His journey is interrupted by the shrill cries o...

• / Mystery
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It is 1901 and the body of a young woman has been found in a village pond in rural England with a deadly reputation. She has bite marks in her throat and is later seen wandering at night. Nearby, in a vault of a ruined abbey, two coffins have been op...