Sigsbee Manderson, the most feared financier in America, is found shot dead in the grounds of his English country house. The painter and amateur investigator Philip Trent is sent down by a newspaper, examines the body, the servants, Manderson’s secretaries and his young widow, and reaches a solution he cannot bring himself to publish.
Published in 1913, it bent the rules of the detective story and pointed the way toward the Golden Age. Download the free EPUB.