Status Updates From The Three Taps

As a writer of fiction, Knox appears to have let himself go. Seems to be having a lot of fun.

A vastly rich man dies in a holiday resort of gas poisoning. The facts and traces contradict the suicide theory, but the man´s life insurance company, The Indescribable, thinks otherwise and they send in their investigator, Miles Bredon to find out about the cause.

Nice story so far, wording is in an oddly 'antique' (1927) British English, so there is the one or other word to be learned for me.