"Nobody would have murdered him," Miss Lavinia cried. "Everybody liked John " The note left beside Dr. John Bastow's corpse simply read: "It was the man with the dark beard." Dr. Bastow hadn't approved of his daughter Hilary's fianc . So when Hilary's father is found shot dead inside his own office, the door-key turned from the inside, the fianc Basil Wilton becomes a chief suspect...
"I'm afraid it is evident that someone did not."