John Dickson Carr was the undisputed master of the locked room/impossible crime puzzle, and "The Crooked Hinge" is one of his best. A man's throat is slit - in front of witnesses - yet nobody sees the killer. Could it have been suicide? Unlikely; where is the weapon? Murder? How?
All this is set in the midst of a mystery that involves a question of the identity of the heir to an English title and estate, the sinking of the Titanic, and a grotesque and mysterious automaton that seems to have the ability to move by itself.
As I said, one of Carr's best - happily now back in print. It's the subject, of course, of this week's Classic Mysteries podcast. Enjoy!
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