Cordelia the Magnificent

by: Scott, Leroy, 1875-1929

Publication date: 1923

Publisher: New York : Henry Holt and Co.

Collection: brigham_young_university; americana; byuspecialcollections

Digitizing sponsor: Brigham Young University

Contributor: Harold B. Lee Library

Language: English

[6], 395, [3] p. (last 3 p. blank), [1] leaf of plates : 20 cm

Cordelia, called "The Magnificent" by her friends because of her brains and charm, is reduced suddenly to poverty. Rather than marry Jerry Plimpton merely for money she goes to work. Innocently she gets information regarding one of her friend's family skeletons for a swindling lawyer. The lawyer then threatens to expose her unless she marries him. Plimpton no longer wants her when he hears the truth. The situation becomes complicated, with a startling revelation made by a man whom Cordelia meets as a butler in her friend's house, and turns suspicion in the right direction. This story became a Metro movie in 1923

Verso of t.p.: Printed March, 1923

Frontispiece by illustrator, Charles D. Mitchell

Tan cloth stamped in green

cat o pcc rare 20081002