Plot Death Bredon arrives at Pym's Publicity Ltd, an advertising agency, to take up the post of junior copywriter. He is assigned the room of his predecessor Victor Dean, who has died in a fall down the office's iron spiral staircase. The doctor states that death was caused either by a broken neck, due to his landing on his head at the bottom of the stair, or by a wound of the right temple. The death appears suspicious, as the victim apparently made no attempt to save himself as he fell. Looking through Dean's desk, Bredon discovers a partially-completed letter to the firm's proprietor, Mr Pym, telling him that something 'undesirable' is going on in the office.
Plot Death Bredon arrives at Pym's Publicity Ltd, an advertising agency, to take up the post of junior copywriter. He is assigned the room of his predecessor Victor Dean, who has di:ed in a fall down the office's iron spiral staircase. The doctor states that death was caused either by a broken neck, due to his landing on his head at the bottom of the stair, or by a wound of the right, temple. The death appears suspicious, as the victim apparently made no attempt to save himself as he fell. Looking through Dean's desk, Bredon discovers a partially-completed letter to the firm's proprietor, Mr Pym, telling him that something 'undesirable,' is going on in the office.