Mr. Pinkerton Grows a Beard

New OCR from a cbz file. Formatted, proofed, v.1.5. Two pages missing in source file, but not critical.

Originally published in 1934. (From back of the paperback reprinted in 1963) Also published as *The Body In Bedford Square*. It continues the series involving Mr. Pinkerton, average grey man, and Inspector Bull of Scotland Yard.

Carlotta Rathbone was awfully elegant, dreadfully chic and terribly dead- as Mr. Pinkerton discovered when he stumbled over her body in a dimly lighted London street.

Her friends were bought; her enemies were legion, and paramount among them was Archibald Biddle, a social-climbing novelist who had used Carlotta and then tried to drop her. Biddle was Scotland Yard's prime suspect- until he panicked and began to tell too much about London's international set.

Then the killer struck again...