"I just wanted to ask you one question.""Yes?""Why did you lie to us about that burglar?"The Case of the Deadly Diamonds starts out as a smallscale caper for Ludovlc Travers, leading light of the Broad Street Detective Agency. The unspectacular sum of two hundred pounds had vanished mysteriously from a safe in the home of Paul Morren, an oldguard London jeweller.But when Travers moves in to investigate for the Insurance company, the case erupts into a bona fide spectacular involving the theft of a fortune in diamonds, armed bank robbery, and a bloody climax of multiple murder and suicide.The key to the Morren familys liaison with death and diamonds lies with heirturnedcriminal David Wayner. But he isnt talking.And since the Morrens are such accomplished liars, Travers has to rely on what corpse number one and corpse number two can tell him about who corpse number three will bebefore he can engineer a perilous confrontation with the desperate keeper of the diabolical gems.The Case of the Deadly Diamonds was originally published in 1967. This new edition features an introduction by crime fiction historian Curtis Evans.

Binding: Paperback;196 pages; Publisher: Dean Street Press; Classification: N/A; Weight: 318.22 g; Dimensions: N/A

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