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Inspector Head having ascertained that Edward Carter has been shot down at his own door at four o'clock on a January morning finds in the snow the murderer's footprints leading to a gate and stopping there! The tracks do not go on nor do they reappear anywhere: the murderer having walked as far as the gate apparently vanished into thin air! This is the initial problem in a mystery into which is woven the love story of Hugh Denham and Marguerite West - but it is by no means the final or greatest problem of the book. Here is not only mystery but a very human story. Charles Henry Cannell (1882-1947) was a prolific English author who wrote many mystery adventure western and fantasy novels under the pseudonyms E. Charles Vivian Jack Mann and Barry Lynd.