The Banshee Murders

by Grant Maxwell

From here on The Shadow could take over!

CHAPTER XV

COMMISSIONER RALPH WESTON was in a very grumpy mood.

“It’s nonsense, Cranston!” the commissioner insisted. “Claude Older couldn’t have disappeared in Central Park, any more than Winslow Ames! Both men left the vicinity of Central Park instead of going there!”

To prove his point, the commissioner thumbed through the report sheets that Inspector Cardona provided with a corroborating nod.

The report sheets proved all that Weston claimed, but largely because he so interpreted them.

First: Winslow Ames.

The man had made inquiries regarding his Pullman reservation at Penn Station. He had been seen to board the Boston car. After that he had vanished.

“What do you say to that, Cranston?” queried Weston.

“Mistaken identity,” returned Cranston. “A ticket agent and a Pullman porter wouldn’t notice a passenger closely enough to know if somebody else happened to be doubling for him.”