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Leonidas Witherall, a scholarly college teacher renowned for his Shakespearean resemblance, is enlisted to write a new mystery. When his housekeeper interrupts, he leaves for a dinner hosted by banker Fenwick Balderston, adopting the guise of a bank director. At Balderston’s home, Witherall discovers that a brown‑paper parcel of vital bank documents has vanished and that the banker has been struck by a bronze bust of Shakespeare. With the help of the determined housewife Liz Copley and a cohort of assistants, he searches the town of Dalton, follows clues such as a mysterious dinosaur footprint, a missing copy of Tamerlane, and the trail of the bank papers, ultimately identifying the murderer.
First publish date: 1947
Genre: Mystery & Detective/Cozy Mystery
Authors: Phoebe Atwood Taylor
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