Number Seventeen: A Tale of Intrigue and Murder in London

From a master of classic British detective fiction comes “a rattling good mystery” featuring Scotland Yard’s Winter and Furneaux (The New York Times).
 
It’s just off Charing Cross road that writer Frank Theydon first notices the distinguished gentleman dashing for cover in the rain. Soon after, Thayer sees the him again, paying a late-night visit to his neighbor, the widow Lester. But the next morning, when she’s found brutally murdered, Thayer sees the stranger once more. When he least excepts it.
 
He’s millionaire philanthropist James Forbes, who’s scheduled an interview with Thayer, unaware that their paths have already crossed. Or is he? Unless Thayer’s wild, writerly imagination is getting the best of him, he can’t shake the feeling that he’s now being followed. Has he been set up to witness a crime, or is Forbes being framed for committing one? And is Forbes’s fetching daughter a woman to confide in or fear? Enlisting the help of Det. Superintendent James Winter and his unflappable French partner, Insp. Charles Furneaux, Thayer is determined to find the answers—even if it kills him.
 
First published in 1916, Number Seventeen is of a long-running series of mysteries featuring Winter and Furneaux, an indomitable combination of the methodical and the intuitive, by Louis Tracy, one of the best-kept secrets of post-Edwardian-era crime fiction.