The dangerous ladies affair
"When a pleasant afternoon's bicycling through Golden Gate Park with a friend ends with the revelation of threatening letters, followed by a gunshot in a mansion garden, Sabina Carpenter knows this is a case that demands her immediate and undivided attention. The questions her partner John Quincannon has to unravel are not difficult: Titus Wrixton, a wealthy banker, has met his extortionist's first demand, but the order to pay another {dollar}5,0...