The Clifford Affair is a fascinating scandal about a house sold with a headless corpse somewhere inside. It is up to the unmatched Chief Inspector Pointer to discover who murdered the architect, and why. Excerpt: “Then this way, sir.” Maybrick led down to a door at the farther end of a little passage. Pointer stepped into a tiled bathroom. In the bathtub—it was not a pleasant sight—lay a man's body, stripped and headless. “Where's his head?” “Not on the premises, sir. Gone. Like his clothes. All gone.”
