Unravelled Knots by Emma Orczy — Read

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THERE had been a great deal of talk about that time, in newspapers and amongst the public, of the difficulty an inexperienced criminal finds in disposing of the evidences of his crime--notably of course of the body of his victim. In no case perhaps was this difficulty so completely overcome--at any rate as far as was publicly known--as in that of the murder of the individual known as Prince Orsoff. I am thus qualifying his title because as a matter of fact the larger public never believed that he was a genuine Prince--Russian or otherwise--and that even if he had not come by such a violent and tragic death the Smithsons would never have seen either their £10, 000 again, or poor Louisa's aristocratic bridegroom.