Mr. Budd investigates
By: Gerald Verner
Series: Linford mystery library; Robert Budd series; Linford mystery library
Publisher: Linford
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Leicester
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9781444814033
Subjects: Robert Budd (Fictitious character); Fiction
Description: The canvas, seemingly daubs of red and green paint, showed, on closer inspection, a woman, her crimson lips twisted in a devilish leer ... The man who had purchased the painting was found in his lodgings - stabbed to death - his painting stolen. While investigating the case, Superintendent Budd stumbles onto another murder in progress in a derelict house, and hears the dying man utter just two words: 'Red ... light ... ' Nearby, lies a picture ... of the Leering Lady.
Notes: Originally published: London: Wright & Brown, 1940.