- The mother of a girl who used to work for Long Susan is murdered, along with a rent collector. The girl claims to have no memory of the event, which may be linked to the construction of a new railway.
- After Susan declines to give pregnant Lucy Eames her job back in the brothel, Lucy is found wandering,blood-stained and dazed. In a nearby tenement,due for demolition to make way for the rail-road,a rent collector and Lucy's mother are found dead but Lucy has no recollection of events and Reid brings in progressive psychiatrist Dr Crabbe to try and help her remember being in the house. Reid discovers that Susan was instrumental in helping Lucy,making her a suspect,though she also informs him of Lucy's medical condition,which made her stay at the brothel impossible. However the detectives' investigations turn up the name of one other who would definitely benefit by the death of one of the victims.—don @ minifie-1
- Inspector Reid has a double murder to investigate when young Lucy Eames is found by PC Dick Hobbs in front of the police station sprayed with blood. They trace her movements to a slum that is being torn down and there find a man and woman - Lucy's mother - both dead. The slum is being cleared for construction of the underground railway and the dead man is identified as a rent collector, seemingly out to get what he can before the building is gone. Lucy had previously worked for Susan but vanished into thin air some two years before. The Inspector is under pressure from the representative of the railway, Stanley J. Bone, to complete his inquiries so work on the site may resume. Susan is more involved than she lets on but Reid eventually identifies the villain of the piece.—garykmcd
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