The story is framed as an investigative report compiled by Ralph Henderson, a meticulous insurance investigator. He has been hired by a consortium of life insurance companies to look into a highly suspicious claim made by a mysterious, sinister German gentleman known only as Baron R_
The book is framed as a collection of source documents compiled by Ralph Henderson, an insurance investigator. Henderson has been hired by five different assurance companies to look into a massive, highly suspicious claim: £25,000 (an absolute fortune at the time) on the life of the late wife of the sinister and brilliant Baron R___. Madame R___ died after supposedly sleepwalking into her h…