![]() The Tuesday Night Bloggers’ topic for November is ‘History and Mystery’ and, before going Full Historical upon you, I want to look at the use of history as a backdrop to inform the present story, and there’s nowhere better to start than the early works of Carr. Throughout so much of his early work there is a miasma of the past pushing through, and a revelling in the detail of such times that threatens to overload the present story as Carr seems far more interested in dumping as much detail as possible from, say, the French Revolution upon you so that the Weight of History can be added to the press of his peculiarly heady tales of mystery and imagination. It begins with the Terror, but it has not ended yet.” Upon reflection, it’s fairly astounding that John Dickson Carr published novels for 20 years before finally writing his first ‘true’ historical tale with The Bride of Newgate in 1950. ![]() ![]() “The story of the Widow’s Room…begins in the month of August, and in the city of Paris, and in the year 1792. ![]()
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