The Mannequin House

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London, 1914. Called out to investigate the murder of an employee of the House of Blackley, an upmarket Kensington department store, Detective Inspector Silas Quinn of Scotland Yard's Special Crimes Department finds himself investigating one of the most bizarre cases of his career. For the chief murder suspect is a monkey. One of the store's fashion models has been found dead on her bed, strangled with a red silk scarf. The room is locked from the inside, the only other occupant being a monkey in a red fez hat.