In Shanghai, in his own office, the film administrator of “Piccadilly” — a Spanish citizen, Señor Tole dos — is found. Apparently, unknown criminals cut his throat from ear to ear with a razor. The terrible bleeding wound caused almost instant death. The case immediately took on a sensational character—after all, it was the murder of a European enjoying extraterritorial rights, beyond the reach of Chinese law. A killing committed in the most mysterious and mystical surroundings. Within half an hour, two English detectives arrived at the scene: Price and Grogg—an inspector and even a police doctor, who was hard to wake up at home… At that moment, none of those present could imagine that this murder would become only one in a series of unjustifiably cruel crimes that the inseparable English sleuths will have to investigate.
Don’t miss the audio version of the thrilling novel “The Mystery of Bubbling Well Road,” signed with the name of the never-existent Boris Stronin—the mysterious “Anonymus” who combined eight authors of the Monday literary circle.