A widowed landlady recalls the spring flood when the river rose halfway up her boarding-house and her lodgers came and went by boat. One of them, the actress Jennie Brice, disappeared, leaving her shifty husband Mr. Ladley, a missing coat and a dog called Peter, and the landlady found herself drawn into the investigation.
A brisk, humorous mystery from the queen of the had-I-but-known school. Download the free EPUB.