A Modern Wizard

Mortimer Dudley and Robert Bliss are longing for a sensational murder case—then the suspected poisoner himself asks to see them.

In New York in 1873, two young lawyers are waiting for their chance to make a name in court. The case in the morning paper seems made for them: Mabel Sloane, a young musician, is dead, and an autopsy has found morphine in her body—even though doctors say she was already dying of diphtheria. The police suspect her sweetheart, Dr. Emanuel Medjora, who has abruptly disappeared. Then he walks into Dudley and Bliss’s office. The evidence looks damning, the circumstances stranger still, and the doctor is a man no one seems able to read. Why has Medjora come to these lawyers—and what truth lies behind Mabel Sloane’s death?

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