Complete and unabridged, with 60 full-page plates by William Merritt Chase, John Sloan and James 'Clock' Shaw. A millionaire drops dead on the eighteenth green with no mark on him, in front of three witnesses. Chester K. Steele was never a person: it was a house name of the Stratemeyer Syndicate, the fiction factory behind Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys, used on adult mysteries written to order. Read it as what it is — a machine-made puzzle, competently built, from the firm that industrialized American storytelling. Sixty plates of painting from 1845 to 1924, by William Merritt Chase and Aleksander Gierymski among others, carry the gaslight and rain-slick street that this sort of ordered puzzle was made to be read beside.