When Professor Stephen Brent, the widowed Managing Director of a major pharmaceutical company was driving home late one night down the lonely country road that was his normal route, the last thing he expected was that upon being momentarily dazzled by the headlights of an oncoming vehicle he would almost kill a young schoolgirl trudging along the road with an old suitcase. She is miles from anywhere, and obviously in the last stages of exhaustion, and her ankle is injured by the glancing blow he caught her as he had swung the car to avoid running right over her. With nowhere to go, no home to return to, and having expressed a strong dislike of being taken to a hospital or the police she finally accepts his offer of shelter for the night. It is the start of a mystery involving a lost fortune and a killer who is systematically eliminating the girl's family one by one in an effort to recover the fortune.. Going against all the advice of his friends and advisers, Stephen is determined to protect the girl and recover for her that which is rightfully hers. But the killer is clever and deadly, and always one step ahead, and then the killer strikes for the last time, and Stephen has to gamble his own life in a desperate attempt to save the girl.

Revised - October 2020

Extract

(From Chapter 28)

"I doubt he'll manage that; Dobkins is dead."

"Oh, that's a shame!"

"I have no doubt Dobkins would agree with you on that score if you could but talk to him," Harold said dryly. "It seems he was in the peak of health, talking about coming home to the U.K., and then died quite suddenly of natural causes."

"You don't mean?"

"Let us just say it is possible. He was found dead in his New York apartment, and I gather that there were no suspicious circumstances. However, Dixon tells me that a neighbour mentioned to the police that Dobkins was associating with a woman for a few days prior to his death and who hasn't been seen since. The description of this woman could easily fit Ruth Greenway."

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