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Even with its cover faded and torn, Stephanie felt she just had to buy that century old childrens book, because penciled inside the front cover is the name and address of the young girl who had owned it so long ago. Curious, she randomly types the girl's name into the search bar of her tablet to see if there is any information about her on the internet, but each click on the search results leads Stephanie and her family ever deeper into the details of the brutal murder of a young American college student far from home in a picturesque Swiss valley.This is the stunning account of how the innocent purchase of an antique book led a family to unearth headlines about a crime that captured the public's imagination on both sides of the Atlantic during the autumn of 1932, the exemplary investigation and pursuit of the killer by the Swiss Police, and the crucial support given to the victim's younger sister by the staff of the American Embassy and the people of the Swiss valley.