Before he created Charlie Chan, Earl Derr Biggers wrote this neat little mystery of love and murder by letter. A young American in London courts a girl through the personal column of a newspaper, and — to keep her interested — invents a murder in the house next door. Then the murder actually happens. Ingenious and charming, with a trick worthy of the master he would become, this edition presents the complete and unabridged novella, newly typeset and illustrated with 30 full-page color plates.