Cirrus@Austlit

'The plot Is simple: A popular man, but a notorious gambler, was murdered in the billiard room of a baronet's county house, on the morning after the Goodwood races. The crime looked simple of solution, but soon the local police could not say whether it was an inside or outside crime. Then Larose arrived. He met what looked like a conspiracy of silence, but soon found that probably a dozen persons had good cause to commit the murder, and that any one of them might be guilty. Bit by bit he gathered his clues, and when his inquiries were growing dangerous he was shot, being severely wounded. Fate played a part with two conspirators, but Larose later continued his investigations, and the author reaches an unusual, unexpected, but legitimate denouement, one that will set the reader thinking about the clues that he has overlooked. They are all here, but few will pick the man who committed the murder.'

Source:

'The Judgement of Larose', Sunday Mail, 17 June 1934, p.9.