The Curved Blades

Complete and unabridged, with 60 full-page plates by Francis Grant, William Powell Frith and William Merritt Chase. A wealthy woman is found dead in her chair, dressed for a party she was not going to, and the household is full of people who wanted her money. Fleming Stone works it out from the small impossibilities; Carolyn Wells built her plots the way she built her nonsense verse, on exact absu...