A country-house party at Considine Manor ends in murder when a man is found dead in the billiard room and a valuable necklace goes missing. Inspector Baddeley follows the obvious leads, but the young amateur Anthony Bathurst notices bed-clothes, faces and a Venetian dagger, and the narrator, looking back eight years, sets down the real facts of the case.
The first Anthony Bathurst mystery, a fair-play puzzle from the golden age of detective fiction. Download the free EPUB.