Description:There had always been
whispers of ghosts when people spoke of the deserted and sinister old
mansion in Plague Court; and when Chief-Inspector Masters, genial
ghost-layer of the London police, broke into the little stone house in
the rear court, he found the body of Darworth, the medium, stabbed to
death on the floor. The door had been bolted from within and locked from
without, and there was no other means of getting in or out. Yet there
lay Darworth - and besides him the dagger that had belonged to Plague
Court's most evil and persistent ghost. It was a question that was not
to be answered that night either by Masters, or by any of that strangely
assorted group which had congregated at Plague Court. They began to ask
themselves if the ghost of Louis Playge, one time assistant to the
hangman, had not really come back to haunt the slime and decay of the
court that bore his name.