Flat 2 by Edgar Wallace — Read

The newspapers carried the following item:

'We learn that Mr. Hurley Brown, a brilliant young assistant commissioner at Scotland Yard, has tendered his resignation to the chief commissioner on the score of ill health. This disposes of the rumour that was actively circulating in Fleet Street last night that Mr. Hurley Brown had been killed by a gang whom he was instrumental in bringing to justice a few years ago. We understand that Mr. James B. Lettle, deputy chief constable of Birmingham, is to be invited to take the vacant appointment.'