Truth Comes Limping

<p>Sir Clinton Driffield hardened solver of many a knotty problem was playing chess with his old friend Wendover when their game was interrupted by the news that a dead man had been found in a lane near by. When it turned out to be the body of a hack journalist with a reputation for always being hard-up and for writing a particularly revealing type of biography and a hundred pounds in notes was found near the body blackmail was naturally suggested and the tracing of the money back to an unpopular local land-owner whose family had many a skeleton in the cupboard pointed strongly to murder. But death struck again and Sir Clinton did not clear up the tragic affair as quickly as he had hoped.</p>