The Crime at Tattenham Corner: An Inspector Stoddart Mystery: Volume 2 (The Inspector Stoddart Mysteries)
The note left beside Dr. John Bastow’s corpse simply read: “It was the man with the dark beard.â€
Dr. Bastow hadn’t approved of his daughter Hilary’s fiancé. So when Hilary’s father is found shot dead inside his own office, the door-key turned from the inside, the fiancé Basil Wilton becomes a chief suspect for Scotland Yard. Yet how could the crime have been engineered?
Now an important lacquered box is missing; a former colleague of Bastow’s has suddenly shaved his beard; and the doctor’s ex-secretary has come mysteriously into money. Before Inspector Stoddart of the Yard can form conclusions, another murder takes place, again credited to the “Man with The Dark Beardâ€â€¦
The Man With the Dark Beard is the first of Annie Haynes’ Inspector Stoddart mysteries, originally published in 1928. It is a sparkling lost classic from the early golden age of crime fiction.
“Miss Haynes, I think, improves steadily – this is the best detective story she has yet written.†Time and Tide
Country | USA |
Manufacturer | Dean Street Press |
Binding | Kindle Edition |
ReleaseDate | 2015-10-05 |
Format | Kindle eBook |