
Crippen and Landru recently released The Kindling Spark, a collection of John Dickson Carr’s earliest stories. The nine pieces collected within were published between 1922 and 1929, while Carr was still in high school and college. The plots range from horror to adventure to mystery, and this is really a deep cuts collection for the reader who wants to get into every last bit that the author wrote.
I was lucky enough to order The Kindling Spark early, and managed to get my hands on one of the first 200 copies, which are clothbound and signed by editor/contributor Dan Napolitano. This limited run also comes with an exclusive pamphlet featuring Carr’s second story – The Cloak of D’Artagnan. Given that this story is unlikely to be published elsewhere, I figured I’d provide an overview for the curious.
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