The Man with the Dark Beard (Inspector Stoddart Mysteries)

Product DescriptionNobody Would Have Murdered Him, Miss Lavinia Cried. Everybody Liked John! IM Afraid It Is Evident That Someone Did Not.The Note Left Beside Dr. John BastowS Corpse Simply Read: It Was The Man With The Dark Beard.Dr. Bastow HadnT Approved Of His Daughter HilaryS Fianc. So When HilaryS Father Is Found Shot Dead Inside His Own Office, The DoorKey Turned From The Inside, The Fianc Basil Wilton Becomes A Chief Suspect For Scotland Yard. Yet How Could The Crime Have Been Engineered?Now An Important Lacquered Box Is Missing; A Former Colleague Of BastowS Has Suddenly Shaved His Beard; And The DoctorS ExSecretary Has Come Mysteriously Into Money. Before Inspector Stoddart Of The Yard Can Form Conclusions, Another Murder Takes Place, Again Credited To The Man With The Dark Beard...The Man With The Dark Beard Is The First Of Annie Haynes Inspector Stoddart Mysteries, Originally Published In 1928. It Is A Sparkling Lost Classic From The Early Golden Age Of Crime Fiction.This Is The Best Detective Story She Has Yet Written. Time And Tide.About The Authorannie Haynes Was Born In 1865, The Daughter Of An Ironmonger. By The First Decade Of The Twentieth Century She Lived In London And Moved In Literary And Early Feminist Circles. Her First Crime Novel, The Bungalow Mystery, Appeared In 1923, And Another Nine Mysteries Were Published Before Her Untimely Death In 1929. Who Killed Charmian Karslake? Appeared Posthumously, And A Further PartiallyFinished Work, The Crystal Beads Murder, Was Completed With The Assistance Of An Unknown Fellow Writer, And Published In 1930.