Viner, a young man of means living in Bayswater with his maiden aunt, finds himself faced with reality one November night when a stranger is murdered in Markendale Square. The dead man, Mr. Ashton, seems to have held a secret about a vanished peer, and a ring, a knife and a family of the nobility draw Viner into the inquiry.
A brisk 1920s mystery from a writer whose books President Wilson admired. Download the free EPUB.