Maria Black, M.A., Principal of Roseway College for Young Ladies, does not expect to come face to face with murder in her favorite cinema, when a stranger seated in Number 11 on Row A is found to be dead—shot through the head with a copper bullet! The baffling crime enables her to take on her role of detective and become, once again, Black Maria—the tireless crime solver. Determined to get to the root of the mystery, she works side by side with the stolid Inspector Morgan, local police chief. Together they follow a tangled trail that takes them behind the scenes of a cinema, examining the lives of hardworking folk who strive to maintain the entertainment industry—and eventually leads them into the recesses of a ruthless killer's dark mind. Another riveting classic British mystery torn from the pages of the pulps.

Black Maria, Book Three.