The Strange Case of the Barrington Hills Vampire: An Impossible-crime Murder Mystery-轻识

In 1880, a vampire terrorized Barrington Hills, feasting on the locals and leaving their mutilated corpses as evidence. Now, forty years later, it’s happening again.

Detective Rowan Manory and his assistant Walter Williams are hired to investigate. They don’t believe in the undead, but nothing else could explain murders so bloodily impossible.How does the killer walk through wa...

In 1880, a vampire terrorized Barrington Hills, feasting on the locals and leaving their mutilated corpses as evidence. Now, forty years later, it’s happening again.

Can the detectives solve the case before the vampire strikes again? Can you? You will have all the evidence necessary to solve the mystery including:

1. A map of the first murder

2. A floor plan of the house

3. Footprint diagrams showing all movement in the snow

4. A challenge to the reader featuring eight questions you must answer before the final chapter.

The Strange Case of the Barrington Hills Vampire is a thrilling impossible-crime murder mystery from the author of Goodnight Irene and The Opening Night Murders .

James Scott Byrnside is a murder mystery/impossible crime fanatic. He likes locked rooms, footprints in the snow, missing murder weapons, and unreliable suspects. All of his novels deal with impossible crimes and baffling plots. Goodnight Irene (2018) tackles the problem of the locked room within a country-house murder mystery. The Opening Night Murders (2019) is a densely plotted example of the invisible killer. His latest, The Strange Case of the Barrington Hills Vampire (2020) is a paean to the supernatural detective story, including a no-footprints problem and a locked-room murder that must be read to be (dis)believed. In 2021, he plans to release Bay of Blood, a murder mystery set in 1950.