A Bit of Wire-Pulling

Summary

A short story from British Library Crime Classic The Christmas Card Crime and Other Stories. 

'It’s a very rare thing for a murder to be committed actually in the presence of a police officer.'

Or so it was thought.... 

After the police fail to trace the writer behind a series of threatening letters to wealthy industrialist Sir Charles Leighton, he demands constant police protection. And thus it is up to Inspector Lang to accompany the man to a bridge party on New Year’s Eve - and track down his killer....

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