![]() The questions abound – who is she, how did she get in and is she truly the dead woman's ghost?Īt 120-pages, “The Lady is Transparent” delivers the patented Carter Brown experience. The audio results are surprisingly convincing – there was definitely a mysterious woman in the room. Further, Slocombe was entranced by the folklore and kept a tape recorder running in the room. The supernatural aspect of Carter Brown's novel is The Gray Lady, the ghost of a dead woman who haunts the room where Slocombe was murdered. Wheeler concentrates his efforts on learning more about Martha's dead lover Slocombe and Ellis' arrangement for Martha to marry George. Ellis has allowed his brother Ben to reside there along with Justine, her equally attractive sister Martha, and a planned groomsman for Martha in George Farrow. He learns that wealthy Ellis Harvey owns the home. Wheeler, ignoring the folklore, shoots the lock out and indeed finds Slocombe dead in bed with wounds that appear to have been created by a wild animal.Ĭonfined in the locked room mystery genre tropes, Wheeler interviews all of the home's residents. Justine explains that her family heard a scream from inside, and they feel that “The Gray Lady” killed Henry Slocombe behind the door. Through a spacious network of halls and rooms, Justine leads Wheeler to an immensely large door that's locked from the inside. Wheeler's lust for the woman nearly supersedes his assignment. His welcoming host is Justine Harvey, a beautiful vixen adorned in a skimpy white gown. With a fiery crescendo of thunder and lightning, Wheeler arrives at the sweeping Gothic mansion in the forest. There's been a murder on an eerie locale called Old Canyon Road at the top of Bald Mountain. ![]() Lieutenant Al Wheeler becomes a ghostbusting investigator after receiving a call from the county sheriff. “The Lady is Transparent”, published in 1962 by Signet, adheres to that consistently fun formula. Occasionally his work would dabble in supernatural themes that were easily debunked and solved in the book's finale. His stirring, sultry formula starred three interchangeable investigators in Al Wheeler, Danny Boyd and Rick Holman. Carter Brown, real name Alan Yates, was an English-born Australian writer who authored over 300 short mysteries. ![]()
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