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Sarah Brandt is surprised when the son of her superstitious next-door neighbor asks for her professional advice. She is even more surprised to learn that mild-mannered Nelson Ellsworth has a mistress and has gotten her with child. When the young woman later turns up dead under the infamous hanging tree in Washington Square, Nelson is the prime suspect. Sarah knows that he must be innocent, and she enlists the help of detective Frank Malloy to help her find the real killer.

Kat Holloway knows that her beau and confidante Daniel McAdam has a talent for dangerous work as a Scotland Yard agent. At long last though, Daniel’s coldhearted boss has promised that after a final mission, his debt will be repaid, and he’ll finally be free. However, Daniel must risk his life one last time, masquerading as a secretary to an elderly viscount who could be the mastermind behind the recent plots against the Queen and her government.

Ein rätselhafter Mord und ein Haus voller Verdächtiger Marchfield Square . Wie eine Oase im Herzen der Großstadt verströmt die elegante Londoner Wohnanlage das Gefühl von Behaglichkeit und Sicherheit. Bis zu jenem Tag, als Richard Glead, einer der Bewohner, erschossen in seiner Küche aufgefunden wird. Der gewaltsame Todesfall veranlasst die energische Vermieterin Celeste van Duren zu sofortigem Handeln. Ein Mord in ihrem Haus stört den Ordnungssinn der vornehmen alten Dame empfindlich.

Former policeman Frank Malloy is frustrated when a woman requests his private detective services to implicate her wealthy husband in adultery, the only grounds for divorce in New York State. Although Mrs. Bing seems genuinely distressed about her marriage and desperate to end it, she refuses to tell Frank the reason she absolutely must divorce her husband and admits she has no legal justification.