“He says that Miss Holladay entered her father’s office late yesterday afternoon, stayed there ten minutes, and then came out hurriedly. A few minutes later Rogers went into the office and found his employer dead. That’s the whole case, but it’ll be a hard one to break.”
Lester is a lawyer for a prestigious law firm in New York that represents some of New York City’s most wealthy citizens, including Hiram W. Holladay, a Wall Street tycoon. When Mr. Holladay is found dead at his desk from a knife wound to the neck, all evidence points to his daughter, Miss Frances Holladay, as the perpetrator.
Courtroom drama, a kidnapping, and a fraught pursuit overseas follow this shocking crime in an ingenious detective story sure to delight mystery fans.
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“Conan Doyle and Anna Katharine Green have a worthy rival in Burton E. Stevenson.”
— Chicago Record-Herald
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Burton Egbert Stevenson (1872–1962) was an author, anthologist, and librarian. While attending Princeton University, Stevenson was a correspondent for United Press and for the New York Tribune. Stevenson became director of the Chillicothe public library in 1899 and held that position for fifty-eight years. As well as being a librarian, Stevenson wrote numerous novels, including four young adult novels, edited others’ works, and created numerous anthologies of verse, familiar quotations, and the like.
Stefan Rudnicki first became involved with audiobooks in 1994. Now a Grammy-winning audiobook producer, he has worked on more than five thousand audiobooks as a narrator, writer, producer, or director. He has narrated more than nine hundred audiobooks. A recipient of multiple AudioFile Earphones Awards, he was presented the coveted Audie Award for solo narration in 2005, 2007, and 2014, and was named one of AudioFile’s Golden Voices in 2012.