[Mr. Pinkerton 07] • Mr. Pinkerton Grows a Beard
- Authors
- Frome, David & Brown, Zenith
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Tags
- mystery
- Date
- 1934-01-01T05:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.57 MB
- Lang
- en
New OCR from a cbz file. Formatted, proofed, v.1.5. Two pages missing in source file, but not critical.
Originally published in 1934. (From back of the paperback reprinted in 1963) Also published as *The Body In Bedford Square*. It continues the series involving Mr. Pinkerton, average grey man, and Inspector Bull of Scotland Yard.
Carlotta Rathbone was awfully elegant, dreadfully chic and terribly dead- as Mr. Pinkerton discovered when he stumbled over her body in a dimly lighted London street.
Her friends were bought; her enemies were legion, and paramount among them was Archibald Biddle, a social-climbing novelist who had used Carlotta and then tried to drop her. Biddle was Scotland Yard's prime suspect- until he panicked and began to tell too much about London's international set.
Then the killer struck again...