by Anna Katharine Green
Classic mysteryNo. 23453 minViolet Strange
A box of embroidered linen arrives with the wrong name upon it. A limousine draws up outside a house of mourning. And the silliest little belle of the season walks into a murder room and begins, very sweetly, to count the marks upon the floor.
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