From the Book Jacket
What this Mystery is about -
A paragraph in a GOSSIP COLUMN which quickly causes two violent deaths ... A blood-stained brass POKER upon which a queer young man deliberately places his own fingerprints ... A set of very important PLANS written in Braille to which clings a faint odor of violets ... A pair of expensive fur-lined GALOSHES which are too small for a lovely lady to wear. ... A lady's GLOVE which mysteriously moves from a side table to the center of a room ... A note written in VIOLET INK which causes a murder witness to change her mind very suddenly ... A secret drawer in a man's desk, delicately scented with VIOLET PERFUME ... The faint SMELL OF VIOLETS in the limousine of a wealthy air plane manufacturer . . . The camel's-hair COAT of a man who says he imports eggs from Australia . . . An ADVERTISEMENT from a cosmetics concern which conceals a momentous secret . . . An Ediphone RECORD carrying a message too dangerous to be telephoned.
Wouldn't You Like to Know-
Why a battle-ax was used to cut off a pretty girl's head?
Who answered the ring on a murdered man's doorbell?
What was the strange and sinister significance of the re
curring
odor of violets?
What the smell of gasoline had to do with the smell of
violets?
What was the deadly message concealed in the innocent-looking selling letter?
By what blind magic Duncan Maclain solved the letter
secret?
Why the untrimmed Christmas tree was removed from the
porch to edge of the road?
How a nation was saved from disaster because a blind
man's brain retained curious oddments of fact?
YOU will learn the answers to these questions-and a dozen more-in this breath-stopping story of the strangest and most spectacular case ever solved by Captain Duncan Maclain, the brilliant private detective who is totally blind yet amazingly effective.
