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A reporter's wife and former telephone operator compiles a first-person account of the discovery of a prominent lawyer who falls from an upper-story office, an event first described as suicide. Drawing on statements from clerks, a frightened young woman, and a journalistic colleague, she pieces together links to financiers and a copper-market scheme. The narrative mixes eyewitness detail, newsroom curiosity, and methodical inquiry as it follows the unraveling of motives, social entanglements, and financial intrigue that challenge simple explanations and blur the line between accident and crime in an urban world.
The following story of what has been known as "The Black Eagle Mystery" has been compiled from documents contributed by two persons thoroughly conversant with the subject. These are Molly Morgenthau Babbitts and John Reddy, whose position of inside observers and active participants makes it possible for them to give to the public a consecutive and detailed narrative of this most unusual case.