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  • Author: Carolyn Wells
  • Publisher: Reading Essentials

Synopsis

A mystery in which crime and a family curse are interwoven. Mystery fans will rack their brains to solve this superb story of a fatal curse, death masks, and a kidnapped heiress. Even when the murderer is discovered, the method of assassination will be revealed to the reader as an astonishing surprise. But first of all, we have a body - a wealthy murdered man. Add his young wife and daughter, the servants and detectives into the fray and what unfolds is a more than usually vivid and realistic story altogether adapted for cozy and effortless fireside reading. The puzzle isn't easy but we are given enough clues...