"Death on the Crumbles"

A review of Allied International Credit by Edgar Lustgarten written on Monday 19th of January 2009

By strange coincidence, a thunderstorm had been brewing when Mahon, doing

his grisly work at the bungalow, was dealing with the most grisly job of

all--the head, the woman's head. He had severed it from the trunk, built a

huge fire in the sitting room, placed her head upon it, then (I owe a debt

here to Edgar Wallace, who edited the transcript of the Mahon trial), then the

storm broke with a violent flash of lightning and an appalling crash of

thunder. As the head of Emily Kaye lay upon the coals, the dead eyes

opened, and Mahon fled out to the deserted shore. When he nerved himself

to return, the fire had done its work. The head was never found...

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