The cult classic mystery that John Dickson Carr hailed as "a marvel of ingenuity."“I came here to make a dead man change his mind." So begins a creepy and unusual mystery celebrated to this day as one of the greatest “impossible crime” novels of all time. When a family’s promise to protect the beloved pine grove of their dead father creates a financial strain, a seance is suggested to summon the ghost of the late logger and ask its permission. A mixed group of skep...