Mr. Budd investigates

By Gerald Verner

Subjects: Fiction, Robert Budd (Fictitious character)

Description: The canvas, seemingly daubs of red and green paint, showed, on closer inspection, a woman, her crimson lips twisted in a devilish leer ... The man who had purchased the painting was found in his lodgings - stabbed to death - his painting stolen. While investigating the case, Superintendent Budd stumbles onto another murder in progress in a derelict house, and hears the dying man utter just two words: 'Red ... light ... ' Nearby, lies a picture ... of the Leering Lady.