The Red Seal

When Philip Rochester is found dead in his fashionable Washington residence, suspicion falls with cruel swiftness on those closest to him — and on Helen, the wife he had grown cold toward, above all. Only one man resists the obvious answer: Gordon Ferguson, the government investigator whose own heart gives him a painful stake in the truth. As Ferguson follows a trail of guarded servants, uneasy relatives, and a curious paper fastened with a red wax seal, Natalie Sumner Lincoln builds a puzzle that is equal parts drawing-room manners and cold-blooded calculation, all set against the streets, clubs, and townhouses of early twentieth-century Washington, D.C. This edition reproduces the complete, unabridged original text of Lincoln's 1920 novel exactly as first published, paired with a new introduction and reader's notes that place the book in its golden-age context. A classic whodunit of secrets, second chances, and one small seal that betrays everything. Part of The Founding Texts Library.