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Busybody by Jack Popplewell
4 Men, 4 Women
Author of (a selection): Blind Alley, Dead on Nine, Policy For Murder
Mrs Piper, the cleaning lady in Mr. Marshall's office building, one night discovers a dead man with a knife in his back - but on the arrival of Scotland Yard's Superintendent Baxter the body has mysteriously disappeared.
At first, everybody believes that the boss Mr. Marshall has been murdered - after having successfully made everybody in the office hate him profoundly. His wife, too, has a convincing motive for the murder: she is finally free for her lover.
Actually, every one of the suspects has a motive for killing Marshall. Despite the effort of Baxter, the corpse cannot be found. Was it just the imagination of a highly strung cleaning lady? That is exactly Harry Baxter's theory - until the indefatigable Mrs. Piper digs up more proof that there has been a murder in the office after all...
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