Teilhet: The Crimson Hair Murders

Once more, the Baron von Kaz finds himself destitute, as the family fortune he expected to inherit turned out more myth than substance. His miserable attempts to compose a letter to his fiancée (for how could he marry without money?) are interrupted when he stumbles across an intricate plot to kill an heiress and steal her fortune.

Review

“The Baron . . . is a braggart, a penniless adventurer, and a great bluffer; but in the end he always has what it takes, and there is about him a charming unscrupulousness that makes him as delightful a sleuth as you are apt to encounter between book covers.”  (1936)