About This Book
A narrator becomes entangled in a curious criminal case after a woman is found dead and her glass eye vanishes, leaving him suspected of theft. The plot traces investigations, odd coincidences, and a gallery of eccentric witnesses and allies—among them a diminutive, enigmatic woman—while rivalries and romantic tensions complicate facts. Clues accumulate in the form of physical evidence, a cipher, and unexpected mechanical elements, and episodes of danger and revelation move the account toward a definitive explanation. The narrative unfolds as a sequence of discoveries that gradually expose motives and resolve the central mystery.