The Lord of Misrule

A mysterious cloaked figure wearing a hideous, leprous mask and sleigh-bells is stalking the countryside outside London committing murder wherever it goes, yet leaving no footprints. This is the first Paul Halter novel featuring detective Owen Burns, who regards the impossible crime as an art form. Halter, a French best-selling author, is today's natural successor to John Dickson Carr, the master of the locked-room mystery, where there is a rational explanation to even the most baffling murders. This is his first novel to be published in English. His short story collection 'The Night of the Wolf' was published in English in 2006, to critical acclaim. Some of those stories are available as e-books