A startling new detective story by the author of Shadowed by Three.
On a certain Saturday in June, year of our Lord 1880, between the hours of sunrise and sunset, the town of W, in a State which shall be nameless, received two shocks.
Emma M. Murdoch van Deventer, who wrote under the pseudonym Lawrence L. Lynch, was an American author, who published many detective novels from the 1870's to the early twentieth-century.
"I never before in all my career, brought to justice a criminal whom I both pitied unreservedly, and justified fully. Viewing all things from his standpoint, Evan Lamotte is less a murderer than a martyr."
It is the day after the trial with so strange an ending. They are seated in O'Meara's library; Constance, Mrs. Aliston, Mrs. O'Meara, Sir Clifford, his brother, the Honorable George Heathercliffe, Ray Vandyck, O'Meara, and Mr. Bathurst. Mr. Bathurst, who now appears what he is; a handsome gentleman, about thirty years of age, clever, vivacious, eminently agreeable. Mr. Wedron, like Brooks, has served out his day, and been set aside.