In a London teashop a bony old man in a tweed ulster ties and unties knots in a piece of string while he lays out, scene by scene, how the police got a murder wrong. The title case concerns the killing of a lady doctor; others include the doping of a racehorse, all solved from newspaper reports and the inquest evidence.
Armchair detection from the creator of the Scarlet Pimpernel, with one of the oddest sleuths of the Holmes era. Download the free EPUB.