Have His Carcase

Blood soaked the beard

Harriet Vane, recovering from an unhappy love affair and its aftermath, sought solace on a barren beach—deserted but for the body of a bearded young man with his throat cut. She photographed the body and took what few clues she could find before the tide removed the prime evidence. And the strangest clue was an ivory-handled razor—most strange for a man who obviously did not shave…