Rim of the Pit

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Summary: Can ghosts commit murders?
Review: A snowbound group of people in Canada's north must deal with a supernatural killer unleashed by a seance they hold. Locked rooms and impossible murders seem to be explainable only by believing that the dead can come back to take revenge on the living.

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Summary: A festival of impossible crimes and events!
Review: A snowbound group of people in the north woods must deal with a supernatural killer unleashed by a seance they hold. Locked rooms and impossible murders seem to be explainable only by believing that the dead can come back to take revenge on the living. Footprints that begin and end in the middle of unbroken snowfields, the appearance of a Wendigo that can swoop down on its victims, someone killed by someone possessed by a dead man -- these are some of the puzzles adventurer Rogan Kinkaid is faced with in this classic whodunit/howwasitdun. (Also worth seeking is Talbot's first novel with Kinkaid, "The Hangman's Handyman." Not as atmospheric as "Rim," it features a nice puzzle concerning an ancient curse.)

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Summary: A festival of impossible crimes and events!
Review: This book is one of my favourite mysteries.There is great density,the plot is always moving and I found more than twelve impossibilites,most of them having ingenuous solutions.The absence of the fingerprints in the snow ( a recurent theme in the detective novel )is exploited in a very inventive way.About the theme of spiritism and fake mediums,only two books reach the level of this one to my opinion:"the plague court" (JD Carr) and "la quatrième porte" (Paul Halter). Too bad Talbot stopped writing novels after this one!