The Unseeing Eye

A body found in a fire in an abandoned building is identified through its owner's glass eye.

He was an American artist in Paris who was visiting London.

Scotland Yard detectives want to know why he died and who killed him.

Superintendent Duggan believes that the answer lies in the guest house the dead man was staying at. The proprietors also owned the burnt out building. He gets a double to impersonate the dead man.

Edgar Lustgarten narrates a routine tale. One which has few suspects as a few of them were acting suspiciously from the beginning. There is a nod to the Sherlock Holmes story, The Hound of the Baskervilles.