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Title: Hand and Ring

Author: Anna Katharine Green

Release Date: March 17, 2010 [eBook #31681]

Language: English

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HAND AND RING

by

ANNA KATHARINE GREEN

* * * * *

BY THE SAME AUTHOR.

=The Leavenworth Case.= A LAWYER'S STORY. 16mo, cloth,
$1.00; paper, 50 cents; 4to, paper 20

=A Strange Disappearance.= 16mo, cloth, $1.00; paper 50

=The Sword of Damocles.= 16mo, cloth, $1.00; paper 50

=X. Y. Z.= A DETECTIVE STORY. 16mo, paper 25

=The Defence of the Bride, and other Poems.= Square,
8vo., flexible cloth 1 00

G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS, PUBLISHERS,
NEW YORK AND LONDON.

* * * * *

[Illustration: "'Look out,' cried the detective, 'or you will get
yourself into trouble,' and he tightened his grip on the old creature's
arm."--(Page 43.) (_Frontispiece_.)]

HAND AND RING

by

ANNA KATHARINE GREEN

Author of "The Leavenworth Case", "The Sword of Damocles", "The
Defense of the Bride" Etc., Etc.

"For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak
with most