The Noose

> Colonel Anthony Ruthven Gethryn, that unlikely part owner of The Owl magazine, is recalled from a holiday in Spain, his mother's country, to solve a murder mystery amid London's November fogs. He finds that his wife Lucia is sheltering Mrs Bronson, whose husband is in prison awaiting the hangman's noose for the murder of a gamekeeper six months before. A petition for reprieve has been rejected and Bronson will shortly hang for someone else's crime. >Convinced by Mrs Bronson that her husband is innocent, Gethryn, aided by the staff of The Owl and by a Scotland Yard detective officially on…