A revolver shot and a crash of glass bring a distinguished stranger stumbling into Craig Kennedy’s laboratory, and the professor and his journalist friend Walter Jameson are soon drawn into the mystery of the Sybarite. Microphones, poison gas, a pulmotor and secret service men all play their part as they follow the dancer Paquita through Manhattan’s cafés.
Gadget-filled detective fiction of 1917 from the creator of the “American Sherlock Holmes”. Download the free EPUB.