The Crystal Beads Murder

This, the last of twelve mystery stories writtesn by the late Annie Haynes—who died last year—was left unfinished. One of Miss Haynes's friends, also a popular writer of this type of fiction, offered to undertake the work of completion, and it says much for her skill that she has independently arrived at Miss Haynes's own solution of the mystery, which was known only to myself.
It is not generally known that for the last fifteen years of her life Miss Haynes was in constant pain and writing ...