Description: Like most mystery stories, this one begins with a murder. The victim is a young girl, the scene the lawn in front of “Sloanehurst” the time, around midnight on a rainy night in summer. It is left to Jefferson Hastings, an elderly detective who happened to be staying at Sloanehurat at the time, to…

Description: This is a detective story with a most usual ending. Lawrence Bristow, amateur detective, answers a call for help and finds that Enid Withers has been murdered while staying with her invalid sister, Maria Fulton. Who killed Mrs. Withers? Her husband? Her sister? Her sister’s fiance? A handyman? The mysterious man with a beard?…