The Man with the Dark Beard

"Nobody would have murdered him," Miss Lavinia cried. "Everybody liked John!" "I'm afraid it is evident that someone did not."

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 engineere...