CHAPTER II THE VEILED APHRODITE CHAPTER V QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS CHAPTER VI LABYRINTHS OF BLOOD CHAPTER XII THE WOMAN WITH THE CACKLING LAUGH A Novel for Amateur Detectives BY Publisher logo BONI AND LIVERIGHT Copyright, 1923, by PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TO JOSEPHINE DITRICHSTEIN, WALLACE SMITH’S ILLUSTRATIONSThe five illustrations contained in the following pages, and the jacket design, are the work of the new phenomenal black and white artist, Wallace Smith. In making the drawings Mr. Smith chose to illustrate the spirit of the text rather than its letter. The result is this series of Renaissance pictures whose dark opulence curiously interprets the moods of the story’s hero, Prince Julien de Medici—of Broadway. |