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336 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 1929
"In your opinion, which is the most remarkable feature of the whole case?”
“Well, apart from the murder itself,” replied Carstairs slowly, and appearing to ruminate as he spoke, “I suppose the fact that Mountjoy turned out to be a woman is the queerest thing about it.”
“Yes, that was queer,” said Mrs. Bradley, in a curiously inconclusive tone.
Mrs. Bradley was dry without being shrivelled, and bird-like without being pretty. She reminded Alastair Bing, who was afraid of her, of the reconstruction of a pterodactyl he had once seen in a German museum. There was the same inhuman malignity in her expression as in that of the defunct bird, and, like it, she had a cynical smirk about her mouth even when her face was in repose. She possessed nasty, dry, claw-like hands, and her arms, yellow and curiously repulsive, suggested the plucked wings of a fowl.