A Bit of Wire-Pulling

A short story from British Library Crime Classic The Christmas Card Crime and Other Stories. ¿It¿s a very rare thing for a murder to be committed actually in the presence of a police officer.¿ Or so it was thought¿After the police fail to trace the writer behind a series of threatening letters to wealthy industrialist Sir Charles Leighton, he demands constant police protection. And thus it is up to Inspector Lang to accompany the man to a bridge party on New Year¿s Eveamp;mdash;and track down his killer¿