No Clue (Paperback)

Excerpt: ... "But, if your supposition is to hold good, how did your father happen to be in possession of that dagger, which evidently was made with malice aforethought, as the lawyers say?" "Exactly," she said, her lips quivering, hands gripping spasmodically at her knees. "He didn't do it He didn't do it Berne's idea was a mistake " "Who, then?" he pressed her, realizing now that she was so unstrung she would give him her thoughts unguarded. "Why, that man Russell," she said, her voice so low and the words so slow that he thought her at the limit of her endurance. "But I've said all this to show you why Berne put his hand over the judge's mouth. I want to make it very clear that he feared father