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This is Trevor Lowe #1. The series is available in "boxed sets" for the Amazon Kindle.
About the author: Gerald Verner (1897-1980) was the pseudonym of British writer John Robert Stuart Pringle.
Mini-synopsis (from Goodreads): When Tony Frost and his colleague Jack Denton arrive for a holiday at Monk’s Lodge, an ancient cottage deep in the Somerset countryside, they are immediately warned off by the local villagers and a message scrawled in blood across a window: "THERE IS DANGER. GO WHILE YOU CAN!’
Tony invites his friend, the famous dramatist and criminologist Trevor Lowe, to come and help — but the investigation takes a sinister turn when the dead body of a missing estate agent is found behind a locked door in the cottage.
Mini-review: This immediately struck me as The Hardy Boys grown up, with the two boys (Tony Frost and Jack Denton) as adults, aided by dramatist Trevor Lowe, the stand-in for Fenton Hardy! We have all the elements: the two are in constant peril, being tied up, being gassed, messages scrawled in blood, warning notes attached to a dagger driven into the tabletop! And of course, lots of chapter-ending cliffhangers. A good romp with constant action. I was always waiting for the "dramatist" role to come into play, but it did not.
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