The Peacock Feather MurdersFirst
PB: Tauchnitz paperback 5334 (Leipzig, Germany 1938)
First US: Pocket 180 (1942)
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Synopsis:
The murderer sent a formal invitation to Scotland Yard telling them the time and place
of the murder. Incredulous, and astounded at the audacity of such a note, the Yard
recalled a similar, and still unsolved, case of two years previous.
Sir Henry Merrivale and Chief Inspector Masters accepted the invitation and had the
house surrounded. Upstairs in an otherwise empty house was a furnished room. A man entered
the house. Promptly at the time set by the murderer a shot rang out. The police rushed in
and discovered that same man on the floor with a bullet through the back of the head and
another in his spine... but no one else had entered the house! It was an
impossible situation, but it DID happen. |