When Charlotte Pitt asked her mother for help—her mother’s locket had gone missing—the wife of the police inspector didn’t take the matter particularly seriously. Well, it’s gone and gone… In many, even the most respectable, houses, servants can be less than honest. But when Charlotte learned that in other mansions on Rutland Place—where her mother lives—various trinkets were also disappearing, she began to think.
And when she found out that the missing locket contained a photograph of a man well known to Charlotte—one who was certainly not her father… Could someone be running a blackmail scheme on Rutland Place? The young woman began investigating. And almost immediately she encountered a mysterious murder of one of the local ladies, which someone had carefully tried to pass off as suicide. It was known that the victim knew everything about everyone. Could the unknown thief, trying to protect their secret, have moved from stealing to killing?