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Beadle's New York Dime Library No. 410

1886 · Free to read

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About this issue

By K. F. Hill, this installment opens with the discovery of Randolf Church's body in an ornate marble bathroom of his family's Fifth Avenue mansion. Church, a wealthy young man of thirty with golden curled hair, lies dead in a purple silk robe near a Roman-style bath, one hand submerged in warm perfumed water; no blood stains the scene. The narrative establishes the household: Church's imperious widow-mother; his cousin Ubaldina, a seventeen-year-old Peruvian heiress of mixed descent who harbors romantic feelings for Randolf; her devoted Indian nurse Oello; and the family's valet Borrowdale. When Church fails to emerge from his four-hour bath, his door is forced open revealing him dead. The coroner arrives baffled, finding no cause of death—neither suicide nor obvious murder—while a plainly dressed detective appears uninvited, claiming to have been summoned by Borrowdale, prompting the coroner's indignation.

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