Fire, Burn

By John Dickson Carr

Book Overview

Here is another in Carr's entrancing series of historical mysteries. Complete with an exciting and puzzling plot, period romance, and accurate historical detail, Fire, Burn is a captivating depiction... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B000RWH5ZY
• Release Date: January 1968
• Publisher: Bantam
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A very imaginative thriller!

There is some similarity to "The Devil in Velvet" with this, but the time is certainly different. A policeman from 50's London is transported back in time to 1829 in London. He is placed smack in the middle of a crime when he is sent to investigate missing bird seed of all things. While he is at the house where the birdseed has disappeared, a murder occurs, and Detective-Superintendent John Cheviot is right in the middle of a puzzling "locked-room" mystery. As we know this type of mystery is Carr's forte, and he handles this one with his usual aplomb. I loved the time-travel angle, and I really like Cheviot. Carr's characters are very realistic. These books are timeless.

Victorian Detective Fantasy

Closely related to The Devil in Velvet: a time-travelling policeman, in love with a woman whose picture he saw at the Victoria and Albert Museum, finds himself involved in a late nineteenth-century murder (impossible, of course). Although unnecessarily emotive in parts, there is plenty of action and local colour, although the gambling den brawls and fisticuffs with Captain Hogben somewhat obscure the truly ingenious murder and surprising murderer.