The red widow murders

About “The red widow murders”

This 1925 novel is set in Lord Mantling's mansion on Curzon Street, in a room called the Red Widow's Chamber, where a man died in 1802, a girl in 1825, and two gentlemen in 1870 and 1876, after which the room was sealed. Years later, eight men and a woman gather for a sinister experiment, including detective Sir Henry Merrivale, Lord Mantling, his brother Guy Brixham, the Frenchman Ravelle, and Bender, wondering who will draw the Ace of Spades and be escorted into the chamber.