THE FLORENTINE DAGGER
Reading edition
A Novel for Amateur Detectives
BY BEN HECHT
BONI AND LIVERIGHT Publishers New York
Copyright, 1923, by Boni and Liveright, Inc.
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
TO JOSEPHINE DITRICHSTEIN, who graciously promised to read my next book, providing, of course, it was a mystery story
WALLACE SMITH’S ILLUSTRATIONS
The five illustrations contained in the following pages, and the jacket design, are the work of the new phenomenal black and white artist, Wallace Smith. In making the drawings Mr. Smith chose to illustrate the spirit of the text rather than its letter. The result is this series of Renaissance pictures whose dark opulence curiously interprets the moods of the story’s hero, Prince Julien de Medici—of Broadway.
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