Mr. Budd Investigates — Gerald Verner

The canvas, seemingly daubs of red and green paint, showed, on closer inspection, a woman, her crimson lips twisted in a devilish leer... The man who had purchased the painting was found in his lodgings - stabbed to death - his painting stolen. While investigating the case, Superintendent Budd stumbles onto another murder in progress in a derelict house, and hears the dying man utter just two words: 'Red...light...' Nearby, lies a picture...of the Leering Lady.