An artist\'s work is vindictively vandalized, and the artist is found murdered in his smoking room.
These dark occurrences have two things in common:.
A lunatic Frenchman, discovered beaten and bloody in the street, screams in terror when offered a loaf of bread.
A clerk disappears from a large London bank along with a rather substantial amount of the company\'s money.
Gold bullion totaling 10,000 pounds mysteriously vanishes from the ill-fated steamship Nicobar as it sinks en route to Plymouth.
An artist\'s work is vindictively vandalized, and the artist is found murdered in his smoking room