The Blue Rajah Murder - Macgrath, Harold
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Misfortune followed in its wake--yet the Blue Rajah diamond was coveted by many and battle, murder and sudden death played a prominent part in its history. Five of the greatest jewel experts in the world are gathered together in the palatial Hood camp in the Adirondacks to bid for this sinister stone. That evening Hood's niece brought the Blue Rajah from the safe to show them and passed it around. A few hours later on her way to bed she heard the player piano repeating Chopin's Fantasie over and over again--going down to investigate she found the room empty and in the next room was Hood's…mehr

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Misfortune followed in its wake--yet the Blue Rajah diamond was coveted by many and battle, murder and sudden death played a prominent part in its history. Five of the greatest jewel experts in the world are gathered together in the palatial Hood camp in the Adirondacks to bid for this sinister stone. That evening Hood's niece brought the Blue Rajah from the safe to show them and passed it around. A few hours later on her way to bed she heard the player piano repeating Chopin's Fantasie over and over again--going down to investigate she found the room empty and in the next room was Hood's grotesquely distorted body on the floor. He was dead and the jewel had disappeared. From that thrilling start the story of the sinister and ill fated Blue Rajah rushes on with a speed that actually leaves one gasping for breath.
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American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter Harold MacGrath (September 4, 1871 - October 30, 1922) was a bestselling and prolific author. He occasionally finished more than one mass-market novel per year, with themes including romance, spies, mystery, and adventure. He was the first nationally renowned author hired to produce original screenplays for the fledgling motion picture industry. Additionally, he had three short stories and 18 novels turned into movies, sometimes more than once. Additionally, three of these books were turned into plays that were presented on New York City's Broadway. Although MacGrath spent a lot of time traveling, his home base was always Syracuse, New York, where he was born and reared. He was the son of Thomas H. and Lillian Jane McGrath, and he was born Harold McGrath in Syracuse, New York. Before publishing his first book, a romance titled Arms and Woman, in the late 1890s, he was a teenage reporter and columnist for the Syracuse Herald newspaper. The Puppet Crown, his subsequent novel, reportedly peaked at No. 7 on the New York Times bestseller list for the entire year of 1901. More than one mass-market novel about love, adventure, mystery, spies, and the like was still produced annually by MacGrath.