The Chronicles of Martin Hewitt

Martin Hewitt solves a series of baffling crimes in this thrilling installment of the adventures of London's cleverest detective

An artist's work is vindictively vandalized, and the artist is found murdered in his smoking room. Gold bullion totaling £10,000 mysteriously vanishes from the ill-fated steamship Nicobar as it sinks en route to Plymouth. A clerk disappears from a large London bank along with a rather substantial amount of the company's money. A lunatic Frenchman, discovered beate...