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by Anna Katharine Green
Publisher: A. L. Burt Co. 1911
ISBN/ASIN: 1448648866
Number of pages: 398
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The mystery to be solved is the unexplained death of a society woman in the midst of a crowded lobby. She bears a wound but its source initially cannot be ascertained. When it is, apparently, the Coroners jury declares her death to have been a suicide...
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