Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Vol. 57, No. 3. Whole No. 328, March 1971

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Another of James Powell’s absolutely charming stories of San Sebastiano... and sharpen your wits: clever, crafty, cunning, this Louis Tabarin, diamond merchant extraordinaire; when Tabarin wanted a diamond necklace for his antique-jewelry collection — even if it was the last of a family’s heirlooms and with a potent legend to protect it — he left no stone (no pun intended) unturned...

In the Riviera Principality of San Sebastiano the name Tabarin et Cie means diamonds of the first water and pearls of great price. Louis Tabarin’s jewelry shop on the rue Mazeppa had brought him not only wealth but entry into the best society where he was admired for his impeccable sense of style and envied for his air of bored imperturbability. And yet here he was, stopped dead in his tracks and his mouth ajar, on the Opera’s broad marble and onyx staircase as the intermission crowd pushed by him on both sides. Below, just inside the refreshment salon, was the most exquisite diamond necklace the renowned jeweler had ever seen.

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