OUR FIRST MURDER

A man's body with the head missing, finger-tips acid-smoothed and clothes stripped of identifying marks, was a pretty problem for the police and the Beagle Detective Agency.

How did this gruesome corpse come to be in Hester Gale's room? Who killed him? Why?

The police unearthed many suspects from among the boarders in the Maison LaVelle theatrical rooming-house. There was Hester Gale, talented and lovely; her wealthy young fiancé; a magician, tap-dancer, singer, wardrobe-misstress, acrobats. Hate, jealousy or desire gives each one of them a motive to commit murder, and their alibis are flimsy and unsupported.

Clever sleuthing by the Misses Beagle and Inspector Moore identifies the headless corpse and in an exciting finaly brings the murderer to book.

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