In an ABC tea shop off the Strand, a shabby old man fiddling with a piece of string tells the young journalist Polly Burton how the police got it wrong. From his corner table he explains the Fenchurch Street mystery, the York and Liverpool and Edinburgh cases, and a death on the Underground, using only the newspapers and the inquest evidence.
One of the first armchair detectives, by the author of The Scarlet Pimpernel, and a pleasure for fans of puzzle stories. Download the free EPUB.