The Last Warning
By Gerald Verner
Detective-Superintendent Budd is a busy man.
In Thatchford on a minor investigation, calling on his old friend Superintendent Hawkins, he’s asked to help with a murder mystery. One man has been stabbed, two of his business associates have been threatened. Then another murder takes place in a locked room with police guards outside.
The case bristles with difficulties, but Budd sifts all the clues with his usual thoroughness, and exposes a dastardly plot.
Gerald Verner (1897-1980) was the pseudonym of British writer John Robert Stuart Pringle. Born in London, Verner wrote more than 120 novels that have been translated in over 35 languages, and many of his books have been adapted into films, radio serials and stage plays. Verner also wrote forty-four Sexton Blake tales.