When a wealthy English widow dies in her house in Dijon, her brother-in-law accuses her niece and heir, Betty Harlowe, of poisoning her. A young English solicitor, Jim Frobisher, arrives to help, and the French detective Inspector Hanaud takes charge of a case of anonymous letters, a missing poisoned arrow and a household full of secrets.
Often ranked among the finest detective novels of the 1920s, starring Mason’s shrewd and theatrical Hanaud. Download the free EPUB.