A tired young New York lawyer, worn out after a hard case in a record June heat wave, is drawn into trouble next door: a strange neighbour, a night-time drama in the garden and a run of clues that point at people who swear they are innocent. A bandaged wrist and a dropped handkerchief become matters of life and death.
A tidy American detective novel of 1913, good company for readers of Anna Katharine Green and Mary Roberts Rinehart. Download the free EPUB.