Complete and unabridged, with 60 full-page plates by Francis Grant, William Powell Frith and William Merritt Chase. A wealthy woman is found dead in her chair, dressed for a party she was not going to, and the household is full of people who wanted her money. Fleming Stone works it out from the small impossibilities; Carolyn Wells built her plots the way she built her nonsense verse, on exact absurdity. This edition is bound with a gallery of 60 plates of painting, among them works by William Merritt Chase, Francis Grant and Margaret Sarah Carpenter, dating from 1823 to 1910.