Excerpt from The Winning Clue The body was in a curious position. Apparently, before death had come, the victim had been Sitting on the sofa, and, in dying, her body had crumpled over from the waist toward the right, SO that now the lower part Of her occupied the attitude Of sitting while the upper half reclined as if in the posture Of natural sleep. One thing which, per haps, added to the gruesomeness Of the Sight was that she had on evening dress, a gown Of pale blue satin embellished in unerring taste with real Old Irish lace. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.