To Wake the Dead - Gideon Fell Author:John Dickson Carr Poor and hungry, but determined to win a wager made months earlier and half a world away, mystery writer Christopher Kent swindles breakfast at London's Royal Scarlet Hotel. Unexpectedly he finds himself fleeing a darkened suite of rooms occupied by the corpse of a brutally murdered woman. After enlisting the aid of the cel... more »ebrated sleuth Dr. Gideon Fell, Kent learns, to his horror, that the corpse is the wife of his cousin Rodney, who was murdered in an identical fashion two weeks earlier at a country estate miles away. Tracing clues from Sussex to South Africa and back, Dr Fell and the police follow a trail of madness and mayhem to a dangerous and unexpected resolution much closer to home.« less