For a dozen years Judge Ostrander has admitted no one past the high board fence around his house in Shelby. Then one morning the gate stands ajar, and a woman in purple slips inside: the widow of the man executed long ago for a murder the town thought settled. Her daughter’s happiness, and the truth about that old crime, hang on what she finds.
A late, assured mystery from the American pioneer of the detective novel, rich in atmosphere and moral suspense. Download the free EPUB.