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On the eve of Napoleon's planned invasion of Britain, a British spy is forced to try to find the identity of an invisible murderer in John Dickson Carr's historical mystery (and adventure) Captain Cut-Throat... ⚡️📚

While John Dickson Carr is most associated with impossible crimes, he was also a writer of historical mysteries. These were big, ambitious adventure stories with larger than usual page counts - a problem for his publisher in a time of national paper shortages. This was also a problem for this reader who struggled to make his way through The Bride of Newgate when I read it a few years ago. Happily, Captain Cut-Throat is shorter, tighter, and actually contains a coherent mystery plot.