The Red Seal

When a trusted clerk becomes embroiled in a violent episode and a bank official dies, legal procedures and private investigations intertwine as witnesses, lawyers, and acquaintances examine conflicting statements and disappearing evidence. The story moves between police courts, inquests, clubrooms, and domestic rooms, following counsel who pursue leads, puzzling tokens, and a series of vanishings. Gradual reconstruction of partial truths, motives, and overlooked details drives the inquiry, and the sequence of revelations and deductions ultimately untangles the circumstances behind the central crime.