Rebecca Topaz the notorious, young and
innocent
police officer, found out in 39 steps that there was some trouble with
Harry
the foreign
correspondent
. Harry Elstree was a rich and strangeman who always drunk lots of champagne in the Pleasure Garden, before he went downhill to meet Mary Manxman in the Jamaica Inn, were they used to dance some waltzes from
Vienna
as they weren’t stage fright. One day Harry got some blackmail as they had stolen the ring he got from Mary. Under Capricorn he read that it would be an important day for him. So Harry
made an appointment and he went to platform
number seventeen to catch a thief, to catch the man who new too much.
On the platform Harry got some
suspicion that he was not alone. When Harry watched through a rear window he saw two suspicious strangers on a
train
. As a secret agent he followed these Mr. and Mrs.
Smith
, until the lady vanishes. Harry went psycho and grabbed a rope of a torn curtain. Murder! Unfortunately it was the wrong man. It wasn’t Mr. Smith he killed, it was his mate Marnie Paradine who wrote the story; The Lodger a
Story of the London Fog
, about his work on a lifeboat. Marnie was supposed to go north by
northwest
this weekend to watch the birds, especially the mountain Eagle. Harry was spellbound, went vertigo, he couldn’t believe what he had done and decided to dial m for
murder
. “Elstree calling,” Harry said, “I confess.” Officers Juno and the
Paycock
came over to check what was wrong. Harry explained: “I had
this
frenzy of rage as there’s a man who new
to much
who tries to sabotage my life over my easy virtue with that farmer’s wife Mary. I thought this was the saboteur and did a kind of skin game. If I step out my shadow of doubt I think it’s all a family plot.” After this explanation Rebecca arrived, took it over and
finally solved
the Paradine
case.