Two women uncover the truth in a rural murder investigation.

    He was born in Montreal, Quebec and as a young man went to work as a civil engineer for the Canadian Pacific Railway. His experiences working on the railroad led to his writing a series of mystery novels, the most famous of which featured a character called Jimmie Dale. Jimmie Dale was a wealthy playboy by day, but at night put on a costume and became The Gray Seal, who enters businesses or homes and cracks safes, always leaving a diamond shaped, gray paper "seal" behind to mark his conquest, but never taking anything. He was just doing it for "the sheer deviltry of it" at first, but when a woman catches him she blackmails him to war on certain crime organizations. (wikipedia.org)

    Wisteria Lodge - Mr John Scott Eccles wakes to find that his host and all the domestic staff have vanished and, downstairs, the police find grim evidence of voodoo rites. The Cardboard Box - The morning mail brings Miss Susan Gushing a gruesome surprise. Who would want to send a gentle spinster two severed human ears! The Red Circle - A local landlady has an eccentric lodger who is causing her grave concern especially after her husband was abducted, obviously mistaken for someone else. The Bruce Partington Plans - Holmes is asked by his brother, Mycroft, to uncover how top secret plans for the Bruce Partington submarine could have been stolen from the Woolwich Arsenal.