A young couple find a valuable painting floating in the Thames. Shortly afterwards, the police make a more macabre discovery when a nude corpse, with its nose painted red, is seen floating in the river. An autopsy reveals that the victim has been murdered in the most extraordinary manner - stabbed through the heart with a pencil. Inspector Penk of Scotland Yard is faced with the difficult task of establishing the identity of both the murderer and the corpse. To do so, he must penetrate the bewildering Bohemian world of the modernist art scene...
First published in 1937, this is a classic British murder mystery from the golden age of crime fiction!
First published in 1937, this is a classic British murder mystery from the golden age of crime fiction!
