Clue of the Twisted Candle

The master of suspense becomes the accused. John Lexman, celebrated mystery novelist, finds himself behind the walls of Broadmoor Prison, convicted of a murder he swears he didn't commit. The twist: the crime occurred in a locked room, the victim found with a twisted candle clutched in his hand and the word "LEXMAN" scrawled on the wall. Now only his friend T.X., head of Scotland Yard's special branch, can untangle the web of evidence, false witnesses, and buried secrets that convicted an innocent man. But as T.X. digs deeper, he discovers the case may be more dangerous than anyone imagined, and the real killer may be watching every move. Edgar Wallace, the prolific British author who defined the thriller genre, delivers a fiendishly clever puzzle wrapped in mounting dread. The novel works as both a race against time and a meditation on fate, innocence, and the dark spaces between what we know and what we believe.