Castle Skull [SEP] series
Castle Skull
Castle Skull, first published in 1931, is a detective story by John Dickson Carr which features Carr's series detective Henri Bencolin. This novel is a mystery of the type known as a whodunnit.
Plot summary.
Maleger is a stage magician whose feats of magic are so mysterious and hideous, and his stage presence so evil, that his act frightens unwary children and many adults. In 1912, he purchases the famous "Schloss Schadel"—Castle Skull, on the banks of the Rhine, and transforms the
of a hotel)
- two pilgrim churches
- main parish church of St. Peter und Paul with the Leather "Pietà "from 1360
- the chapel
- dwelling house of the former Cistercians nunnery of St. Jöris, skull relic in St. Jöris' church, baroque altar in Hehlrath's church
- Old Mill of Gressenich.
Also present is a series of castle and manors:
- Castle of Eschweiler (only three towers from the 13th century are left)
- Castle of Kambach (beautiful water