AustLit

Tale of robbery, murder and impersonation set in Autun, Bourgogne, Paris, and the French countryside. Two established criminals and a young gentlemanly embezzler join forces to rob an old miser at Autun, murdering him and his housekeeper in the process. The young man leaves them and through a stroke of chance takes on the identity of a rich young man returning to his aunts after 10 years in Ceylon. Recognition by his former confederates in Paris where he goes to spend his money, and their implication of him when they are arrested, leads to his exposure and arrest. (PB)