THE WAXWORKS MURDER

JOHN DICKSON CARR

P E N G U I N BOOKS
Penguin Books Ltd, Harmondsworth, Middlesex First published 1932 Published in Penguin Books 1938 Reprinted 1938, 1939, 1940

Made and printed in Great Britain b y The Whitefriars Press Ltd London and Tonbridgc

Contents
I.

A Ghost with a Brown Hat Tlte Green Lights of Murder Blood in the Passage How a Certain Myth Came to Life The Club of the Silver Key Mademoiselle Estelle

9 21 3i 42 50 63

2. 3456.

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The Second Alask Confidences are Exchanged Over a Coffin The House of the Dominoes

76 89 102 114 127 140 152 162 172 182 194 202 212

10. Death in Silhouette

II

Some Charming Habits of Red-nose

12. How I Ventured into the Club of Masks 13 Gina Prevost is Stubborn 14. Knives 15 Our Sybarite Scrub-lady 16. A Dead Man Pushes Open a Window 17 The Killer of the Waxworks 18. Stabbing as a Sporting Proposition 19 One Card for Cyanide