The Purple Sickle Murders: Restored Classics to Go Edition

Inspector Joseph French of Scotland Yard expects a routine inquiry when nervous young Thurza Darke comes to him with a warning about a dangerous man. Instead, he is drawn into a tangled mystery of suspected murder, blackmail, and a gambling scheme that seems designed to trap vulnerable women. Thurza insists her friend Eileen Tucker did not die by suicide, as the official verdict claimed, but was murdered, and French soon suspects that the letter found with Eileen's body may have been planted to disguise the truth. As Thurza reveals how she was lured into easy-money betting by the stylish Gwen Lestrange and the sinister Mr. Westinghouse, French sees a pattern of manipulation behind the losses, debts, and threats that have left her desperate. Her story leads him to the unsettling Mr. Style, whose scarred wrist and secretive offer of a well-paid job suggest a deeper criminal connection. French quietly places the girls under surveillance, then turns his attention to a guarded coachbuilder's garage and the grey saloon car at the center of the case. When a nighttime break-in exposes the vehicle's hidden secret, the investigation shifts from suspicion to proof of a far more dangerous conspiracy. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.