Whodunit #2

When a visiting Oriental festival troupe takes the stage at Symphony Hall for a special recital, mysterious sabotage threatens to derail the performance—and Detective Hodges must uncover who's behind the chaos before another attack strikes. With conductor Andre Battile caught between a scheming manager and a jealous singer, both with clear motives for revenge, the detective has to separate the real culprit from the red herrings lurking backstage.

When Lady Titwell brings her valuable pearl collection to a South Seas hotel, the luggage vanishes along with her maid—but surfaces mysteriously in her room with the pearls still inside, locks broken. Inspector Hollander pieces together clues from a stray pearl and passenger records aboard the steamship, suspecting an old con was at play. The truth emerges at the pearl market festival, where the real culprit behind the scheme is finally exposed.

When a respected professor vanishes from Rodgers University along with $5,000 in school funds, Lieutenant Steve Henson investigates three suspects with clear motives—but a grim discovery three months later suggests the case is far more sinister than a simple theft. As Henson digs deeper into the university's laboratories and cellars, he uncovers a diabolical scheme to hide a murder in plain sight, forcing him to identify which of the suspects possessed the cunning and desperation to commit the perfect crime.

An evil old woman who's made enemies of everyone around her—a blackmailed servant, a desperate nephew, a criminal lodger, and others with grudges—meets a violent end in her own home. When Letitia Hodges is found dead and a detective arrives to sort through the suspects, each has a motive and a story, but a crucial detail involving an old clock may reveal who truly wanted her gone. A tense mystery where fear, desperation, and long-buried resentments converge with fatal consequences.

When Kid McCann throws a fixed fight instead of taking a dive as promised, he makes enemies faster than he can count—a vengeful manager, a furious ex-girlfriend, and a mob associate out $50,000. Detective Pat Brady finds the boxer dead in his apartment the next morning, shot from the balcony, and rounds up a handful of suspects, each with a motive and a crumbling alibi. As Brady closes in, a small detail—a saucer of milk and a telltale scratch—reveals which of McCann's burned bridges led to his final knockout.

When Tommy Krandell inherits his eccentric uncle's fortune—along with the condition that he live for one week in the family mansion and care for the old man's talkative parrot, Polly—his envious relatives see their chance to strike. As Tommy settles into his new wealth, one of the family makes a deadly move, and a murder in the night sends everyone under suspicion in this clever whodunit where a bird may prove to be the most reliable witness of all.