The Paternoster Ruby

Swift is still turning over Felix Page’s spectacular wheat coup when his chief tells him the financier is dead. The name strikes a buried memory—but whatever Swift knows about Page, he cannot bring it to mind.

In January 1892, a cold morning’s walk through the city ends at police headquarters, where four grim brokers await news of the dead man they once dealt with. Swift is sent to Page’s neglected mansion in Sheridan Park, where two suspects are being held and the local officers are baffled. The victim was a ruthless financier who could break a market—and the Paternoster ruby gives his associates another reason to fear what the investigation may uncover. Swift must find the thread that ties them together, even as his own elusive memory points toward a secret. What did he know about Felix Page before the murder?

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