The Trevor Case
: Young Dick Tillinghast, a Washington reporter, encounters a variety of adventures in his endeavor to run down the murderer of Attorney General Trevor's wife who is found dead in the family safe. Circumstantial evidence directs suspicion against Mrs Trevor's stepdaughter and her lover. Spurred on by love for a girl who ardently desires the solution of the enigma, Dick gets close on the trail of the murderer and in his quest interviews many high officials, from the President down, and then stumbles unexpectedly upon a Camorrist meeting, where he is saved from an ignominious death by the man who later confesses to the Trevor murder Every chapter takes one deeper into the mystery and the outcome is quite as unexpected as it is surprising Intensely interesting and well told