Bøger af Roger Scarlett

Inspector Norton Kane encounters two more puzzling mysteries. First, a wealthy man has teased his relatives with his wealth for years, and now he's dead. Then, two aged brothers live with their families in separate sections of the same ancestral home. The one who outlives the other receives their father's wealth, a recipe for murder for certain.

Inspector Norton Kane of the Boston police has taken time off to recover from a nasty bout of influenza, but is enticed into personally investigating a strange household, where an elderly man claims someone is plotting to kill him.

Two puzzling mysteries with Inspector Norton Kane of the Boston police. In the first, a stock exchange gambler trying to climb the social ladder is murdered, but the only clear suspect would surely not have committed such a faux pas. Then, a young man living in a boarding house claims someone is working against him; his body is found to prove it.