The Red Widow Murders Author:Carter Dickson A Room That Kills In Lord Mantling's ancestral mansion is a room known as the Red Widow's Chamber. Its first victim, his face black with death, was found there in 1803. Other strange deaths occurred within, and in 1976 the room was locked and sealed with six inch screws through the door jams. Nobody set foot in it since. Nobody wanted to. Until ... more »the present -- 1934. Now eight men and a woman gather around a table for a sinister experiment. Playing cards are drawn from a freshly opened pack. A small, inoffensive man named Bender draws the ace of spades and is escorted solemnly into the Red Widow's Chamber. The door is closed. Eight people tensely wait. They call out to Bender every quarter hour and hear his muffled answer. Two hours pass, the experiment is over, and Mantling calls for Bender to come out. When no one answers, the door is opened and Bender is discovered lying on his back, murdered. He has been dead for more than an hour. How could he have answered the calls? Can a room kill? Originally published in 1935.« less