Monsieur Judas: A Paradox

'Monsieur Judas: A Paradox' is a detective mystery novel by author Fergus Hume. The sleepy little town of Jarchester is rattled when a guest at the inn, barely a week into town, is found dead in his room. London based detective Octavious Fanks is called in to investigate, and before long the death is ruled as a suicide. But before leaving town, Fanks by a strange coincidence meets his old schoolmate Roger Axton. Even stranger is the reason that he gives Fanks for being in town. It turns out that he was in pursuit of his love interest, who comes from the same town as the town indicated on the dead man's pills through which he ended his life. Now the detective is not so sure that the deceased took his own life, and wonders what Roger has to do with the whole matter…