First published in America by Dodd in 1966. This is the first Dell copy, published in September 1971.A man spilling out his life's blood on the doorstep of a church...a mysterious phrase gasped out from dying lips...a strange legacy that led its heirs to ruin...a beautiful woman with a haunting secret in her past...a brother and sister caught in a web of evil that extended from England to the Continent...a bouquet of lovely flowers that spelled hideous death...