DEATH POINTS A FINGER

The skeleton staff of the New York Eagle drowsed at their desks in the heat of the July afternoon, for with but humdrum news, only the Home Editon needed to be put to bed for another day to be ended.

Suddenly over 300 miles of long distance phone wires came the startling message from Jimmy Hale, star reporter on vacation, of a murder case which galvanized the entire force into feverish activity, for Death had struck with vicious efficiency at three distinguished citizens of the nation, within an hour's time, in three widely separated parts of the country.

As Metropolitan press after press added their headlines to the case, the nation's attention fastened itself upon the surviving eleven members of the fantastic Tontine group, on whose continued lives rested a tremendous fortune; for it was soon discovered that each member of this idealistic group was marked for violence by an unknown enemy, whose sinister sign was the numeral "14".

That each member of the Tontine circle was a figure in public life, that each had harbored a heritage of fear for years, and that each personally stood to benefit incredibly by the death of the rest of the members, still further confused the Police.

It remained for the eminent criminologist, Professor Herman Brierly, with the help of Hale's journalistic mind, to pursue the case through its tangled web of evidence, until the net he so cunningly constructed trapped the murderer in its seemingly innocent meshes.

To the many thousands of readers who through Will Levinrew's earlier works were introduced to Professor Brierly, this notice that his latest book contains the furter exploits of this famous sleuth within its pages will come as welcome news. To those readers who have yet to pit wits with the Professor's astounding powers of deduction and unusual methods of crime solution, a most pleasant treat is in store.

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