
"Lord Arthur Saville's Crime", is a short mystery story
written by Oscar Wilde(1854-1900).
It's the story of Lord Arthur Saville, who gets his hand read by a chiromanist, who tells him that he will commit murder in the future. Lord Arthur, takes this profecy seriously and decides to postpone his soon to be marriage and commit murder...
It's a brilliant,strange, ironic story with Wilde playing a game of fate.
Project Gutenberg link of e-book:
http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext97/ldasc10h.htm