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THE RIDDLE OF THE

PURPLE EMPEROR


"For even as the light streamed out and flung that circleinto that impinging mist, there moved across it the figure of a woman"

THE SCOTLAND YARD MYSTERY LIBRARY

THE

RIDDLE OF

THE

PURPLE

EMPEROR

BY

MARY E. and THOMAS W. HANSHEW

 

 

 

McKINLAY, STONE & MACKENZIE

NEW YORK


COPYRIGHT, 1918 1919, BY

DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY


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