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How Many Cards - Isabel Ostrander (1920). The body of financier Eugene Creveling, shot in his study, is not what retired New York detective Timothy McCarty expects to discover when he interrupts an early-morning burglary. The coroner rules suicide; why then does everyone -- servants, friends, and family -- seem to have something to conceal? Ostrander’s usual elaborate cast of characters and motivations; loses a star for an ending which fails to hold up under close inspection.