Publisher's Synopsis
"An enigmatic young woman named Laura Dousland is on trial for murder, accused of poisoning her elderly husband, Fordish. The couple's Italian servant, Angelo Terugi, chief witness for the prosecution, yet is on the stand and also under suspicion. At the heart of the puzzle of Fordish Dousland's death is the Chianti flask that almost certainly held the wine containing the poison that killed him. But the flask has disappeared, and all attempts to trace it have come to nothing. Marie Belloc Lowndes's novel is, in essence, a psychological study into the bitter effects of murder and its aftermath, both on the person accused and those close to her. Only in the closing pages is the mystery of the Chianti flask finally unraveled"--.
