By Marion Chesney
THIS DEBUTANTE IS TO DIE FORLady Rose summer season, the wayward Edwardian debutante who retains getting combined up in disreputable adventures, may swear she isn't really a jealous girl. finally, she is aware her engagement to personal detective Captain Harry Cathcart is just a ploy to maintain her mom and dad from transport her off to India to discover a husband. yet then Harry's most modern customer, Dolores Duval--a imaginative and prescient of curves with a seductive Parisian accent--starts showing all over at his aspect. And that alterations everything.In a healthy of rage, Rose threatens the French siren…only to be came across the very subsequent day, status over her lifeless physique. Ooh los angeles l. a.! The newspapers rush to convict Rose, yet can Harry and Superintendent Kerridge of Scotland backyard transparent her identify, and positioned the genuine assassin at the back of bars?
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There are no signs of a frantic search,” said Harry. “There were no drawers pulled out and left open. Neither was the outer door forced. It looks as if Miss Duval knew her visitor, may even have confided in this visitor and shown him the letters. What about her jewels? And why was she clad only in her nightgown and dressing gown? ” “Madam fretted at the restriction of stays. She went around clad only in her undress most mornings. ” Thomson sat down as if her legs had suddenly given way. She pulled out a handkerchief and dabbed at her eyes.
She got rid of her French staff. ” “Only a month ago,” said Harry. ” “Madam hired the others through an agency. She had advertised for a lady’s maid in the Times before leaving Paris. ” “Now, we are looking for threatening letters sent to Miss Duval. ” “Certainly. ” Harry and Kerridge followed the lady’s maid’s erect figure up the stairs. ” asked Kerridge. She turned on the landing. “Miss Duval paid good wages and was kind. ” She led the way into a pretty boudoir and went straight to the bureau.
Lying in the bottom of the trunk beside three books was a bundle of letters. Rose selected one. It read, “Trollops like you shouldn’t be allowed to live. ” Rose picked up one after the other, reading feverishly. “These are the threatening letters,” she said, turning a white face to Daisy. ” “Captain Cathcart said something about someone sending threatening letters to Miss Duval. He then said the letters were now missing. ” “Someone’s trying to get you accused of the murder,” said Daisy. “Whoever it is must have been watching and followed us,” said Rose.