Freeman, R. Austin — The Cat's Eye

New York, Dodd, Mead and Company, 1927. Hardcover. Blue cloth/boards; color images with orange lettering. vii, 334 pp. with 1 illustration. Includes a disclaimer in the Preface about a fiction incident (in Chapter 10) that, coincidentally mirrored an actual event in real life, although the real event happened several months after the fictional account was written! When Andrew Drayton, a collector of jewelry, is found stabbed to death and the young woman who tried to stop the murderer is wounded, Dr Thorndyke is called in to investigate. But although the scene of the crime seems awash with the fingerprints of the attacker, there may be good reason why the police can't trace the killer. But not only are the facts of the case proving to be vexing but the discovery of a secret chamber and its sinister contents help to reveal that this is no ordinary murder and no ordinary murderer is behind it. - from Good Reads. VG- clean and tight with some general shelf wear.