The Bishop Murder Case

Joseph C. Robin, champion archer, is mysteriously pierced through the heart by an arrow. The body is discovered on the archery range alongside the home of Porfessor Bertrand Dillard in 75th Street, near Riverside Drive. The Police Department and the district attorney's office are immediately notified; and there follows a criminal investigation fraught with the tensest drama and the most baffling horrors. There are more murders and in each case the facetious murderer calls himself the Bishop. It is his plesant habit after each murder to suggest a false clue in a little nursery rhyme, which, considering the circumstances of the crimes, give the case a particularly mystifying and fiendish appearance. When Philo Vance, intimate friend of the district attorney, takes a hand, it is his unique psychological methods of deduction that eventually solve the weird problem.