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Hake Talbot wrote only two mystery novels and Ramble House is proud to bring both of them back into print for modern readers. RIM OF THE PIT is his masterpiece of an "impossible crime" that takes place in the far north where snow surrounds a group of desperate people, one of whom is bent on murder. The mapback cover from the 1950's Dell paperback is one of the best crime maps ever drawn and we reproduce it here for you. In addition, this book contains a short story by Talbot called "The Other Side". You will not forget this book!
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Hake Talbot was the pseudonym of Henning Nelms (1900-1986), an American conjuror with an interest in 'impossible' crimes. His detective character was Rogan Kincaid. Nelms also wrote non-fiction books on stagecraft under his own name.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
A snowbound group of people in the north woods must deal with a supernatural killer unleashed by a seance they hold. Locked rooms and impossible murders seem to be explainable only by believing that the dead can come back to take revenge on the living. Footprints that begin and end in the middle of unbroken snowfields, the appearance of a Wendigo that can swoop down on its victims, someone killed by someone possessed by a dead man -- these are some of the puzzles adventurer Rogan Kinkaid is faced with in this classic whodunit/howwasitdun. (Also worth seeking is Talbot's first novel with Kinkaid, "The Hangman's Handyman." Not as atmospheric as "Rim," it features a nice puzzle concerning an ancient curse.)
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Can ghosts commit murders? And can murderers fly?
30 Oct 1997
Format:Paperback
A snowbound group of people in the north woods must deal with a supernatural killer unleashed by a seance they hold. Locked rooms and impossible murders seem to be explainable only by believing that the dead can come back to take revenge on the living. Footprints that begin and end in the middle of unbroken snowfields, the appearance of a Wendigo that can swoop down on its victims, someone killed by someone possessed by a dead man -- these are some of the puzzles adventurer Rogan Kinkaid is faced with in this classic whodunit/howwasitdun. (Also worth seeking is Talbot's first novel with Kinkaid, "The Hangman's Handyman." Not as atmospheric as "Rim," it features a nice puzzle concerning an ancient curse.)
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
A festival of impossible crimes and events!
6 Oct 1998
Format:Paperback
This book is one of my favourite mysteries.There is great density,the plot is always moving and I found more than twelve impossibilites,most of them having ingenuous solutions.The absence of the fingerprints in the snow ( a recurent theme in the detective novel )is exploited in a very inventive way.About the theme of spiritism and fake mediums,only two books reach the level of this one to my opinion:"the plague court" (JD Carr) and "la quatrième porte" (Paul Halter). Too bad Talbot stopped writing novels after this one!
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
More Hake Talbot available
3 Oct 2005
Format:Paperback
There is at least one additional Hake Talbot Rogan Kincaid novel, Hangman's Handyman, which you might be able to find, and a Rogan Kincaid short story in the impossible crime short story collection Murder Impossible (1990), which is well worth hunting up for a number of "lost" mystery stories. Enjoy.
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