The Man with The Dark Beard: An Inspector Stoddart Mystery

The note left beside Dr. John Bastow's corpse simply read: "It was the man with the dark beard."

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...