(Thrilling Comics 003, 1940)
The Valery family have a problem: they are set to inherit a fortune from their deceased relative John Valery, but on the condition that they all live in the family estate, Valery Grange, for a full year, and danged if a mysterious character called the Terror hasn't started bumping them off just as they were about to complete the terms of John's will. Enter undercover police officer Peggy Allen, aka the Woman in Red, once again posing as a nurse.
Please note the final panel above in which the Terror appears on-panel with almost every remaining Valery, thus removing them from the suspect list. It's a dirty thing to do to me, a person who like to try to solve a whodunnit.
One of the few viable suspects, assuming that the Terror isn't in cahoots with one of the Valerys, is the disappeared Horace Valery, but the Woman in Red finds his skeleton after chasing the Terror from the scene of the murder of Elton Valery into the unexplored depths of Valery Grange.
The Woman in Red reveals her identity to Eleanor Valery (terrible infosec) and sets a trap that nets her one (1) the Terror, and wouldn't you know it, he turns out to be Greeley Butler the family lawyer, who has been fiddling the Valery books to his own benefit and was killing off the family (extremely major crime) to cover for his embezzlement (not that bad, crime-wise). But where would mystery stories be if people didn't see murder as a handy solution for their problems all the time, hey?
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