Rating: 5/5
It is now about six years after Sally Lockhart solved the mystery of the Ruby in the Smoke, and she has organised her own career as a financial consultant. Her friend Frederick Garland has brought her back into the detective world they once worked in that six years ago as she relates a recent story. One of her clients, Mrs Susan Walsh, has invested in the Anglo-Baltic Shipping firm, expecting a profit, and has now had to endure all her money slowly vanishing without a reason from the firm’s new manager, Axel Bellmann.
Frederick, Sally, and their witty friend Jim Taylor investigate the scene and match up many other extraordinary cases from the financial profession, all stemming discreetly from Bellmann himself.
But this adventure is not one that will pass without demise.