The Strange Boarders of Palace Crescent

Mr. Roger Ferrison has just returned to London after several years of living rough in Canada.

• He takes a small room in the boarding house run by Mrs.
• Dewar.
• There he meets the bewitching invalid Fiona Quayne who rapidly develops a consuming passion for Ferrison.

• One suspects from the very beginning that not all of the boarders at Mrs.
• Dewars establishment in Palace Crescent are what they appear to be, and Mr.
• Oppenheim does not attempt to hide for long the existence of some secret and probably criminal bond between Mrs.
• Dewar and some of her boarders.

Meanwhile, back at the Boarding House, Colonel Dennett is murdered. The sensational theft of a Jewelry collection, missing Indian rubies, and the lackadaisical intervention of Scotland Yard all contribute to the plot.