The waters are further muddied by the equally miraculous theft of a valuable painting from the home of theatrical impresario Benjamin Teasel and a murder at Dufresne Court, where Stenhouse lives. Claude Weaver, Patient C, is a suspense novelist subject to blackouts. Della Cookson, Patient B, is a kleptomaniac actress currently starring in Miss Death, which has just opened at the Pomegranate Theatre. Floyd Stenhouse, Patient A, is a Philharmonic violinist tormented by dreams of snakes. Lidia Rees, and her all-but-fiance, playboy financier Marcus Bowman, but it isn’t long before Inspector George Flint, still baffled by the killer’s ability to escape a room locked from the inside, turns instead to the three patients the dead man had taken on since arriving in London. Suspicion immediately falls on his daughter, psychologist Dr. Anselm Rees in Dollis Hill, the uneasy members of his household contrive to enter his locked study and find the Viennese-born psychologist with his throat cut. Shortly after a mysterious and unexpected late-night visitor leaves the home of Dr. Mead’s debut novel is a valentine to the locked-room puzzles of John Dickson Carr, to whom it is dedicated.
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