The Ingenious Mr Stone Author:Robert Player Multiple narrators recount the deaths of two sisters (as mentioned in the first paragraphs of part I). The first victim is the head mistress of an exclusive English girls school, and her demise is told by her friend and school bursar. The second death is the head mistress' older sister who dies at an isolated hotel in the north of the countr... more »y. Are the deaths connected? Was the interest in the school's valuable painting at the bottom of the crimes? Or was the husband of the second victim out to get his inheritance quickly?