Out of Death's Shadow

Madam Ree, handsome, fascinating, unscrupulous, with wits sharpened by a previous contest with Nick Carter—whose bitter enemy she had announced herself to be, because she had been thwarted in her attempt to win a fortune in diamonds, was now in St. Louis. She was mixed up in a mysterious affair in which Nick’s friend, John Dashwood, was in some way connected. What did it all mean?