Licenced for Murder

Licensed for Murder concerns the new managers of an English country inn, who, during the inn's renovation, discover the grisly, burned remains of a person behind corrugated sheeting in the inn's main fireplace. With the person's identity impossible to determine, Superintendent Jimmy Waghorn calls on the now elderly Dr. Priestley for much needed assistance in solving this gruesome case of murder. Cecil Street Writing as John Rhode No. 68 in the series of mysteries featuring private detective Dr. Priestley.