Old Mr. Gryce is melancholy and thinking of his Westchester farm when a telephone call to Headquarters sends him to a house with a round study, a red light, a mute servant and five small spangles on the floor. The investigation reaches back into a family history and a town that distrusted one man’s unsettled eye.
A late case for the detective of The Leavenworth Case, built with the intricate plotting that made Green a founder of American crime fiction. Download the free EPUB.