John T. McIntyre 
Ashton-Kirk, Criminologist 

Who held the old-fashioned brass candlestick that struck down ‘the Bounder’–and set mystery a-throbbing in the quiet suburb of Stanwick? Bat Scanlon, athletic trainer and good sport, found a clue in the dark hotel office where the little Swiss sharpened his murderous knife. But it was Ashton-Kirk who discovered the pat a beautiful woman played in the drama.