Neck in a Noose Author:E. X. Ferrars The icy calm of sudden death... Detective Toby Dyke was slightly baffled when he arrived at the great Tudor mansion of his friend John Lestarke-Toye and found no one at home. Forcing his way in through a French window he turned on the lights. What he saw was a viciously ransacked room with bullet holes in the wall and a fresh splash of blood on ... more »the purple carpet. And sitting upright in his chair was John, hands clasped across his little paunch, smiling genially as always...but quite, quite dead.« less