Murder in the Basement

by Anthony Berkeley

When young Mr. and Mrs. Dane return from their honeymoon they find, buried under the cellar floor of the suburban villa they have taken, the body of an unknown girl. Scotland Yard is called in, and finds itself confronted first of all by an almost impossible problem in identification. By an ingenious idea, Chief Inspector Moresby solves the preliminary puzzle, and calls upon his friend Roger Sheringham, to say that the girl was last heard of at a preparatory school where Roger had been deputising, just before her death, as a master. Roger had noticed that there were some strange...

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