Ilingsworth paces in front of Peter V. Wilkinson’s limestone mansion on Riverside Drive, steeling himself for a confrontation. What follows is a New York story of a rich man under indictment, a young woman named Leslie, lawyers and a murder investigation, in the years when the rich were at last being tried for their crimes.
A brisk society mystery of the muckraking era, for readers who like old New York crime fiction. Download the free EPUB.