num_pages: 217
description: It started when El Moulk's automobile roared crazily through a London fog, its driver dead as a herring. The car screeched to a stop in front of that creaky relic of ancient horrors, the Brimstone Club. Through its cavernous rooms and gaslit passages a murderer hunted victims for a private gallows. The calling cards of a notorious hangman, a miniature gibbet, a length of rope, and an inscription from the tomb of Egyptian kings warned El Moulk and his dazzling French mistress that death was on their trail. It was a perfect case for Bencolin, a detective who preferred fantastic murders.
language: English
title: The Lost Gallows
titlecomplete: The Lost Gallows (Henri Bencolin, #3)
genres: Fiction, Gothic, Mystery, British Literature, Thriller, Detective, Mystery Thriller, Classics, 20th Century, Crime
ratings_count: 434
series: Henri Bencolin
publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub