(Ebook) The Youth Hostel Murders (Rue Morgue Vintage Mysteries) by Carr, Glyn ISBN 9780915230983, 0915230984

(Ebook) The Youth Hostel Murders (Rue Morgue Vintage Mysteries) by Carr, Glyn ISBN 9780915230983, 0915230984

First published in 1953, this is the third book in this classic English detective series to feature the Shakespearen actor and mountain climber Abercrombie "Filthy" Lewker who stumbles across a murder while vacationing with his wife in the mountains of Cumberland, England.About Glyn CarrIf you look upon a mountain climb as taking place in a large, open-air locked room, then Showed Styles was right to choose Glyn Carr as his pseudonym for fifteen detective novels featuring Abercrombie Lewker, all of which concern murders committed among the crags and slopes of peaks scattered around the world. There’s no doubt that John Dickson Carr, the king of the locked room mystery, would have agreed that Styles managed to find a way to lock the door of a room that had no walls and only the sky for a ceiling. In fact, it was while Styles was climbing a pitch on the classic Milestone Buttress on Tryfan in Wales that it struck him “how easy it would be to arrange an undetectable murder in that place, and by way of experiment I worked out the system and wove a thinnish plot around it.”That book was, of course, Death on Milestone Buttress, which first ap¬ peared in 1951 and was published for the first time in the United States by the Rue Morgue Press in 2000. Upon its publication Styles’ English publisher, Geoffrey Bles, immediately asked for more climbing mysteries. Over the next eighteen years. Styles produced another fourteen Lewker books (fifteen, counting one last, currently lost manuscript) before he halted the series, having run out “of ways of slaughtering people on steep rock-faces.” But before Lewker put away his ice axe and ropes for good, Styles managed to send him to Switzerland (.Murder on the Matterhorn), the Himala¬ yas (A Corpse at Camp Two), Austria (The Corpse in the Crevasse and Lewker in the Tirol), Scandinavia (Lewker in Norway) and Majorca {Holiday with Murder). The present volume, The Youth Hostel Murders, was set in Cumbria, the northernmost part of England. Many of his books were set in the place Styles no doubt loved the best, Wales, where, in 2005, he died at the age of 97 after a long, rich life.