The Daffodil Mystery by Edgar Wallace — Read

All that remained of the once stately, if restricted, premises of Messrs. Dashwood and Solomon was a gaunt-looking front wall, blackened by the fire. Tarling interviewed the Chief of the Fire Brigade.

"It'll be days before we can get inside," said that worthy, "and I very much doubt if there's anything left intact. The whole of the building has been burnt out -- you can see for yourself the roof has gone in -- and there's very little chance of recovering anything of an inflammable nature unless it happens to be in a safe."