The Secret Passage
by Fergus Hume
Publisher: G. W. Dillingham 1905
ISBN/ASIN: 160386234X
Number of pages: 339
Description:
Published in 1905, this well-done murder mystery was acclaimed by the New York Times Book Review. It begins with a queer and rich old woman found stabbed to death in her chair and not a clue to the murderer. Then so many clues turn up that even the story-book detective is bewildered.
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