The Rasp introduces the world to the amazing Anthony Gethryn, an ex-secret service agent, and occasional newspaper correspondent. He is assigned to cover the story of a cabinet minister, John Hoode, who was found murdered in the library of his country house, battered to death with a wood-rasp. Scotland yard has only one suspect Hoode's secretary Alan Deacon. But, Gethryn is convinced that Deacon did not do it. To prove that he'll have to investigate himself and find the real killer. But, everyone else who might have had a motive has a cast-iron alibi. Can he crack the case and bring the killer to justice?

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