Lest we give you an unfair advantage or send you off on a false scent, we tell you nothing about this story in advance except that the clues go back over three hundred years in one of the most ingenious deductive problems that ever confronted a sleuth. Barnaby Ross has surpassed himself — Drury Lane’s last case is far and away his best case. Though the deductions are made with the author’s usual fairness and completeness, the story is not a cold analytical problem. The plot unfolds and the crime develops along with the search for evidence, and the events which take place in the late 1930’s are themselves a part of the tragedy of 1599.
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Lest we give you an unfair advantage or send you off on a false scent, we tell you nothing about this story in advance except that the clues go back over three hundred years in one of the most ingenious deductive problems that ever confronted a sleuth. Barnaby Ross has surpassed himself — Drury Lane’s last case is far and away his best case. Though the deductions are made with the author’s usual fairness and completeness, the story is not a cold analytical problem. The plot unfolds and the crime develops along with the search for evidence, and the events which take place in the late 1930’s are themselves a part of the tragedy of 1599.