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Murder— Homedale' was gasped over the telephone to Seaborough Police Station. Detectives were there in a few minutes. But the house was empty, save Frederick Lew'ton— killed instantaneously by stabbing, and* lying in a room distant from the telephone. Who, then, had given; the alarm? That question was solved in a few minutes, but, it was a long and tortuous way ere Ludovic Travers and Detective-Superintendent; WKarton were able to say "that's our man"— each of the five suspects had Nevertheless by brilliant deduction and not a little danger, Travers got the murderer, thiS, process affording a tantalising, yet logical problem for the keen reader, with whom the author plays fair all the time. |