In 1880, Sara Randall flees to her grandmother's ancestral home in Venice where events lead the police to suspect her of murder. This description may be from another edition of this product.
..."It is easy to see why the Venice police thought I might be responsible for that death in the Belzoni's crumbling but proud old house. First of all, I was a stranger, an American spinster of almost twenty-four, who had arrived alone in a country where no wellborn woman travels without the protection of a husband or servants. What was even more damning, I had left my native New England under the sort of circumstances often referred to as a cloud." So begins the story of Sara Randall, who fled to Venice in the 1880', almost penniless.
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