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Jack Derwick's happiness is shattered when Estelle Armand suddenly insists that their engagement must end and that he must leave at once. She still loves him, but her fear and refusal to explain suggest a danger that ordinary romantic disappointment cannot account for. Her father's household becomes the center of a mystery marked by secrecy and dread.
Anthony Wynne brings his physician-detective Dr. Eustace Hailey into a story in which appearances, personal relationships and the suggestion of an evil influence complicate the search for an explanation. The opening rupture develops into a sustained investigation across six parts and thirty-seven chapters.
Also known as The Mystery of the Evil Eye, the work first appeared in serial form during 1924–25 before the American book edition of 1925. This complete Project Gutenberg EPUB preserves the original book's presentation. Its combination of threatened romance, a troubled household and analytical detection places it within the tradition of the early twentieth-century mystery novel.