THE CORPSE IN THE CRIMSON SLIPPERS (1936)

Review by Nick Fuller

4/5

Above-average Walling, if not quite his best. Tolefree is asked to decode a letter sent to a client of his, and stumbles onto a suspicious case of suicide. It at first appears to be an open-and-shut case: if it wasn’t suicide, only Tolefree’s client, a man of two identities, could have committed the crime—but several neat pieces of deduction from ballistics allow him to settle the guilt in another quarter and assist in the capture of an international gang of forgers.