by Joseph a. Lovece (Translator), Anonymous (Author)

After a sting of deaths following demonstrations of a miraculous chess-playing automaton, America's greatest detective Harry Dickson is on the case His countess friend is murdered and he discovers a fiendish plot perpetrated by Russian revolutionary nihilists. Now Dickson must fight for his own life as he attempts to end the killers' reign of terror. Translated from French for the first time. Includes an informative introduction.