Complete and unabridged, with 56 full-page plates by Vincent van Gogh, James 'Clock' Shaw and George Bellows. Murders in a New York street staged to follow the nursery rhymes - Cock Robin shot with an arrow, Humpty Dumpty pushed - and a chess grandmaster among the suspects. The best-known Philo Vance case and the one that established the theme killer in detective fiction. This edition adds 56 plates of painting by George Bellows, James Ensor and Nils Kreuger, and four restored colour illustrations.