Ring for a Noose

A mission to help refugees -- but someone has murder in mind. . . Classic crime from one of the greats of the Detection ClubIt was thanks to the fog that Arthur Crook went that evening to a local watering hole The Duck & Daisy instead of his normal resort The Two Chairmen and thereby found himself involved with a party of young men and women calling themselves the Peace Brigadiers. Their cause was to aid refugees from Europe. The movement had reached a crisis when it became apparent that one of their number was using the Association for personal possibly criminal ends and within a few hours the situation blew up into murder. For once Crook almost tripped over it and in a matter of days he was personally involved acting for the accused man. Crook became entangled in a treacherous plot . . . his inquiries led him into the oddest quarters until in a dramatic scene he unmasked the traitor. But for a little miscalculation on the part of his would-be killers this murder mystery might have been Crook''s last case.This ingenious and exciting crime novel depicts a host of convincing characters in a fearful situation. Yet none of them is so dominating as Crook himself who thunders and almost blunders his way through to prove that once again he only acts for the innocent and always gets his man. . .