Hangover House

New OCR, formatted, proofed, v1.2. Assigned by Lady Hilary’s father to search out the reason for her mysterious actions, private investigator Storm Kennedy follows Lady Hilary from London to a party in Surrey. There on the steps of the terrace Peter Faraway, the host, discovers the body of a man—a man no one knows. He has been stabbed in the chest with a jeweled dagger. Before the police arrive, Kennedy examines the body and finds a small handkerchief and a woman's footprints on the scene of the crime. He pockets the handkerchief and eradicates the footprints. Later Lady Hilary admits to him the handkerchief is her property. Kennedy and Lady Hilary are suspected when a gold case belonging to the dead man is found on Kennedy. In the midst of the police questioning there suddenly appears on the stairway the ghostly apparition of the man who was stabbed. He points to Lady Hilary and collapses. Sax Rohmer, who created the insidious Doctor Fu Manchu, repeats his earlier successes in this suspense-packed tale of murder that grew out of a secret too dangerous to share!