Finger Tips

By Robert Eustace and L T Meade

A vanished diamond-and-ruby cross turns a strained riverside house party into a closed circle of suspicion. The jewel has disappeared from a supposedly secure safe, leaving guests and servants exposed to police questioning while private loyalties and social pressures complicate the search for truth. Narrating in the first person, Diana Marburg enters this mystery not as a conventional investigator, but as a woman whose knowledge of hands offers an unusual route through deception. Palmistry and forensic enquiry meet in Diana's attention to fingers, skin ridges and impressions. Drawing upon Professor Galton's fingerprint research, she treats the hand as more than a guide to character: it may also preserve material evidence. Against the rooms and grounds of a riverside house in Goring, this distinctive method gives the locked-house burglary mystery its particular tension, balancing intuitive observation with scientific-style detection. Romance and social conflict sharpen the investigation. Kate Trevor's love for Captain Jim Cunnyngham is entangled with his gambling debts and the pressure surrounding her possible marriage to a wealthy man, ensuring that the missing jewel cannot be separated from questions of class, money and allegiance. Told through Diana's alert perspective, the novel combines amateur detection, crime fiction and social melodrama while asking whether a person's hands reveal intention, identity, or both. This book was out of print for decades and is now republished by Alpha Editions. It has been restored for today's and future generations. This edition is not just a reprint - it's a collector's item and a cultural treasure.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9378411959
• ISBN13: 9789378411953
• Release Date: January 2027
• Publisher: Alpha Edition
• Length: 24 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"