The Lost Formula
Written by
E. Phillips Oppenheim
Copyright 1916
Published in Hearst's Magazine, Mar 1916 and then in Nash's Pall Mall Magazine, May 1916. Collected in the book .
Lavendale's interest in the noted playwright, Somers-Keyne, might not have extended beyond his appreciation for the man's theatrical productions except that de Freyne obviously had an interest. But how might the writer be connected with the missing formula of death?