The Case of the Seven Sneezes

THREE SLIT THROATS which poured a libation for a wedding party 25 years ago ....
A DEAD CAT which augurs fresh and terrible murder at a silver wedding anniversary ...
SEVEN SNEEZES which convince a detective his presence may be necessary at the anniversary party ...
A vanishing MOTORBOAT that leaves twelve persons marooned on an island . . .
A DARK STAIN in the sand at which a woman stares with unholy fascination ...
A SAND-FILLED SOCK which is getting to be a monotonous prelude to murder .. .
A LETTER significant because it was never read aloud ...
A MAN'S BLOOD on the front of a frilly pink negligee ....
A DRIPPING PIECE OF GLASS clenched in a laughing woman's hand ...
A STAB where a man's heart ought to be-but isn't ...
A great deal of PUZZLING BEHAVIOR ...
Plenty of BLOOD-CURDLING SUSPENSE.

Wouldn't You Like to Know-
• Who has such a curious taste for throats?
• Why Fergus O'Breen feels he must be a murder carrier instead of a detective?
• What Lucas Quincy means by: The solution lies in Eliot?
• Why Catherine Brainard has to sing a round to get into her own bedroom?
• What, after a quarter of a century, started off a repetition of a whole chain of horrible events?
• Why meek James Herndon is so insolent to Alys?
YOU will find the answers in this most unusual story, which flnds murder repeating itself in a 25-year-old pattern. A night of blood and lust and horror ends with a brilliant solution to an exciting series of crimes.