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It takes a ghost to spot a phoney medium - and the same ghost to help his partner solve a murder mystery.
Death comes to Anne Fenwick in a particularly callous manner when, after the heartbreak of losing the husband she loved, she at last finds happiness again with the handsome, aristocratic Arthur de Crecy. He takes her to a quiet country cottage and into a sweet little room...
She is never seen again, and it is her worried niece, Julia who approaches Jeff Randall. But before his investigations have proceeded far, Julia has also met her death, apparently in a car accident.
The case now takes on a far deeper significance, and the key to it seems to point to a spiritualist named Madame Hanska. Anne Fenwick had been attending her meetings. Despite objections raised by his ghostly partner, Marty Hopkirk, Randall persuades Marty's widow, Jean, to attend one of Madame Hanska's seances, using an assumed name and asking if she can contact her dead husband, John.
But the medium cannot contact anyone by that name, and after the meeting, Jean is comforted by a man who had been present and introduces himself as a Mr Elliot. Jean feeds him with details about her false dead husband.
This is Marty Hopkirk's opportunity. By entering Elliot's home, he is able to hear him speaking to Madame Hanska over the 'phone and telling her about the dead 'John'.
Next time Jean goes to a seance, Madame Hanska is able to make contact with John, describing him just as Jean had done to Mr Elliot. The so-called message she receives from him is that he is worried about her finances and telling her that she should contact his old friend Arthur de Crecy.
The racket is now becoming clear. Madame Hanska, Mr Elliot and Arthur de Crecy are all in the plot to trick lonely, wealthy widows. But how to find out more? Once again, Marty Hopkirk demonstrates how useful a partner a ghost can be in a private investigation firm, and it's a very startled phoney medium who discovers that she really is in touch with an actual poltergeist. There's nothing phoney on Marty's side as he makes a ghostlike appearance to extract vital information from Madame Hanska - information, however, which very nearly leads to Jeff Randall suffering the same fate as Anne Fenwick in that sweet little room.
Luckily, Randall has a partner whose powers are more than mortal...[1]
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