Crimes Past — Mary Challis

The ex-con was very dead, a knife embedded in his back...and lawyer Jeremy Locke's address in his pocket.

The Scotland Yard that meant Jeremy was in the thick of things along with his older brother, a longtime fugitive from justice.

Jeremy knew otherwise, but the only way to convince the Yard of his innocence was to track down the missing fortune and incidentally solve the ex-convicts murder.