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Blurb: Inspector Norton Kane's investigation of murder on Beacon Street turns on the secret of the blind man's cat and the mystery of the white feather.
In this second story, (which was later plagiarised by Don Basil), the victim is Arthur Prendergast, a neurotic young man who lodges at Mrs Quincy’s upmarket boarding house. He believes himself to be under siege from various peculiar attacks of malice – the latest including his room being ransacked and a suspiciously red stain left on his floor. It is this latest occurrence which draws Inspector Kane in and when he finds that the stain is not blood, he decides to return to the boarding house only to find that Arthur has been murdered. Of course all of the other boarders swear they know nothing which could help the case and see themselves to be so respectable that their word should just be simply believed. Unsurprisingly Kane does not take this approach and as in The Beacon Hill Murders, there is another well-timed second murder which prevents a witness from revealing what they know.
Series: (Inspector Kane #2)