Henry Wade Volgorde van de boeken (chronologisch)

The body of a woman is found in a corner of Hampstead Heath. She's been strangled, and it's clear from her appearance that she was a prostitute. The detectives seem faced with a hopeless lack of evidence. They have a suspect and several contradictory witnesses, but no proof and little information to go on. With ingenuity and tireless patience Inspector Poole of Scotland Yard finds out that the dead woman was not always a low-grade prostitute but had sunk to hopeless poverty from a very different life.

Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, G.K. Chesterton and nine other writers from the legendary Detection Club collaborate in this fiendishly clever but forgotten crime novel first published 80 years ago.

A wealthy banker, Sir Garth Fratten, dies suddenly from an aneurysm on the Duke of York's Steps. His doctor is satisfied that a mild shock such as being jostled would be enough to cause Sir Garth's death. It all seems so straightforward, and there is no inquest.But Fratten's daughter Inez is not satisfied. She places an advertisement in the London newspapers that comes to the attention of Scotland Yard, and Inspector John Poole is assigned to make enquiries.Poole's investigation leads him into a world of high finance where things are not as they seem; a sordid world in which rich young men make fools of themselves over chorus girls.

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