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The Thirteenth Letter
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781667663340
Publisher: Wildside Press
Published: Oct 9 2025
Pages: 148
Weight: 0.41
Height: 0.37 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Nurse Miriam Ward arrives at Abbott's Lodge on a snowy winter night to care for the ailing Paul Abbott. But when she returns from admitting midnight visitors, she finds a stranger in her patient's bed- and Paul Abbott murdered. Chloroformed before she can raise the alarm, Miriam awakens to find herself the chief suspect in a baffling crime.
As Sheriff Guy Trenholm investigates, the mystery deepens. Betty Carter denies her midnight marriage to the victim. A clergyman lies about his presence at the deathbed. Thirteen letters from Canada bear a cryptic stamp code. And somewhere in the sprawling Lodge lies hidden the legendary Paltoff diamond-a Russian imperial jewel that men would kill to possess.
From the elegant drawing rooms of Washington society to the snow-covered fields of Maryland, Trenholm and Miriam must untangle a conspiracy that reaches from the aftermath of the Russian Revolution to a isolated country estate. With each decoded message, they draw closer to a killer who will stop at nothing to claim the lost jewel. But time is running out, and the thirteenth letter holds the key to a suicide's grave-and a hidden fortune.
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