It Walks By Night
by John Dickson Carr (Grosset & Dunlap, 1930)
audiobook read by John Teller (Soundings, 2020)
Bencolin himself has potential but the viewpoint narrative is mostly slush-ridden, pseudo-poetic waffle disguising a paper-thin solution. The conspirators’ plan to hatch alibis—and thus the crime’s apparent impossibility—relies entirely on there existing an unusually observant witness with a slow watch!