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By Cynthia Peale

at the back of the curtained home windows of Victorian Boston is a global of ardour, scandal ... and murder.

In existence, he used to be the main despised guy in Boston, writer of the town's scurrilous gossip sheet -- and customer and vendor of people's such a lot scandalous indiscretions. Now Colonel William d'Arcy Mann lies at the ground of his stylish lodge suite, the sufferer of a unmarried gunshot wound to the heart.

Addington Ames got here to get well a packet of affection letters written by means of his younger cousin, Val, that had fallen into the blackmailing colonel's ownership. but if he discovers Mann's corpse as a substitute, Ames unexpectedly reveals himself on the middle of a homicide inquiry, his identify splashed around the city newspapers.

With Val dealing with public shame -- at the eve of marriage to an impeccable member of Brahmin society -- Ames's in simple terms desire is to discover the damning missives, which he believes vanished with the killer. With the aid of his sister, Caroline, and their boarder, Dr. John MacKenzie, he strikes via Boston's such a lot well known social circles looking for a well-concealed assassin whose ultimate act of violence will go away no lifestyles -- highborn or low -- untouched...

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