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From Marion Harvey, the author of "The Mystery of the Hidden Room," comes this thrilling mystery, "The Vengeance of the Ivory Skull."

Excerpt from The Vengeance of the Ivory Skull The longer I knock about this old world of ours, and I have wandered far and wide over the face of the globe, the more convinced I become that nothing is wholly left to chance; for only a preordained fate could have willed that I should see the beginning and the end of a mystery which involved three continents and taxed the ingenuity of one of the best minds in the United States. Nor do I regret my share in the game that was played (your archaeologist is well infected with the virus of adventure), since I was not only afforded the opportunity of renewing acquaintance with a city more fascinating than a beautiful woman to a man of my temperament, but also because I returned to America richer by a memory and the gift of a rare curiosity, the smallest and most perfect human skull ever carved from a piece of ivory. 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.

- A dark, brooding, murderous tale from the Golden Age of Crime. - Praise for the author's first book THE MYSTERY OF THE HIDDEN ROOM: 'A gripping detective tale' THE DAILY MAIL. A man is discovered in a New York hotel room, stabbed in the heart with a sinister skull shape burned into his chest. When another victim is found dead in Rio de Janeiro in similar circumstances the young Private Investigator Graydon McKelvie is called in to investigate. He brilliantly pieces together the case to discover the shocking truth. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Marion Harvey was a Brazilian-born American lawyer who wrote a number of detective novels and plays in the 1920s. A rather elusive figure, he practised law in Ohio before moving to Los Angeles. A discovery of innovative New York publisher, Edward J. Clode (publisher of Armitage Trail's SCARFACE), his 1922 debut novel, THE MYSTERY OF THE HIDDEN ROOM was well received ('A gripping detective tale' THE DAILY MAIL). Five more novels and two plays followed, with performances of the latter recorded in New York, Alabama and Pennsylvania.