The Case of the Bonfire Body: A Ludovic Travers Mystery

“It’s terrible. It’s a body . . . the head cut off . . . and the hands.”

Who is—or was—the headless, handless corpse, found discarded on a bonfire? This baffling case of identity leads to a dead doctor who, according to information received, committed murder himself and was in turn murdered by his victim. A contradiction in terms—or is it? The solution to this mystery involves a taciturn match-seller, unbreakable alibis and several double identities on the part of both the murderer and the v...