A wrapped up body of a woman is found in a house that is due to be knocked down.
Scotland Yard detectives look through the files of missing females.
Eventually she is identified, someone who bought goods on credit. Never paid more than the first instalment and disappeared with the goods.
Superintendent Duggan finds a link with a salesman who scours the newspapers for marriage announcements. The newlyweds would be visited by the salesman who offers them goods at knockdown prices.
The description of the salesman is rather nondescript apart from his baldpate.
A story that makes me question the observational abilities of Duggan and his men. Surely they would notice a man wearing a wig.
