The Case of the Reluctant Witness

When all the world's a stage, and a murderer waits in the wings...

Fleeing her mother's attempt at matchmaking, Pinkerton detective Penelope Hamilton Wynch travels to a Connecticut hotel for a straightforward assignment: escort her sister-in-law Flora to New York, where she is to serve as a witness in a counterfeiting case. But Floraan understudy player in a production riddled with strange accidentsis poised to assume the lead role and refuses to leave town.

Coaxing a reluctant witness is the least of Pen's worries after a knife-wielding intruder breaks into Flora's suite in the dead of night. Pen thwarts the attackat the cost of her second-best shirtwaist, no lessbut the man escapes. Are the counterfeiters trying to silence Flora? The lady in question remains stubbornly uncooperative.

With more questions than answers, and the growing suspicion that someone in the hotelpossibly in the...