A clerk in the Dead Letter Office, opening bundles of undeliverable mail, stops at a letter that seems to speak of a killing. It sends him back to the murder of Henry Moreland near Moreland Villa, to the grieving Eleanor, and to the detective Mr. Burton, whose methods and clairvoyant daughter help untangle a crime of love and jealousy.
One of the first full-length American detective novels, published under the name Seeley Regester in the 1860s. Download the free EPUB.