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Trade paperback. WHEN DEATH PAYS A CALL he generally leaves a card behind ...¿¿even if it sometimes takes a pathologist to find it. But on the morning that he visited the bathroom at Forstal Farm, he did it incognito. It took a man with a crowbar to break down the bathroom door, and there on the floor was Basil Maplewood, naked, with one foot still hanging over the edge of the bath. Basil was only twenty-one, and in the very pink of health, but the post-mortem didn't help much¿...¿no violence, no sign of poison. Here is a mystery in a thousand, and one that almost¿-¿but not quite¿-¿threw dust in the eyes of Inspector Arnold and his colleagues.…mehr

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Trade paperback. WHEN DEATH PAYS A CALL he generally leaves a card behind ...¿¿even if it sometimes takes a pathologist to find it. But on the morning that he visited the bathroom at Forstal Farm, he did it incognito. It took a man with a crowbar to break down the bathroom door, and there on the floor was Basil Maplewood, naked, with one foot still hanging over the edge of the bath. Basil was only twenty-one, and in the very pink of health, but the post-mortem didn't help much¿...¿no violence, no sign of poison. Here is a mystery in a thousand, and one that almost¿-¿but not quite¿-¿threw dust in the eyes of Inspector Arnold and his colleagues.
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Miles Burton (pseudonym for Cecil John Charles Street)Cecil John Charles Street OBE MC (1884-1964), who was known to his colleagues, family and friends as John Street, began his military career as an artillery officer in the British Army. During the course of World War I, he became a propagandist for MI7, in which role he held the rank of Major. John Street produced two long series of novels; one under the name of John Rhode, the majority featuring the academic Dr. Priestley; another under the name of Miles Burton, the majority featuring the retired naval officer Desmond Merrion; and a third under the name Cecil Waye.