Stamp Collector

Part Ten, The Earl of Kingston, King-Tenison

CHAPTER TWO THE INTRIGUING CASE OF A MURDER IN PARIS

Mr Armstrong succinctly summarised the circumstances surrounding the case. The Globe had received a tip-off from an official in the French Police that a wealthy man named Gaston Leroux had been murdered in his Paris apartment, with no apparent motive and no sign of a forced entry.

The information had come in the form of a telegram to one of staff writer William Le Queux, an Anglo-French journalist, who’s contact across the Channel had also outlined that the victim

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