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A wonderfully inventive classic mystery from the dawn of detection!

Maurice Ogilvie is a man facing disgrace, heading for bankruptcy after squandering his fortune and being deserted by his fiancée. Seeking a new life, Ogilvie takes on a new identity, and works his passage to Australia. Yet on the night he departs London his former lover, the music hall star Connie Burt, is murdered in her carriage, not long after the two met for a final farewell. Cast as a fugitive murderer, Maurice’s attempts to make a new life for himself in Australia under an assumed name threaten to be overshadowed by Connie Burt’s death. For all his hopes, there are those who wish to locate him, and the time must come eventually when he will be forced to face the accusation of murder.