Ben Ames Williams

Lady in Peril Ben Ames Williams

When the director of the Jervis trust vanishes with a fortune in bonds he sets into motion a sequence of danger and death which disrupts the lives of Clint and Clara Jervis, heirs of the estate. It is while they are backstage in the Booth Theater that disaster strikes. During the shooting scene of a gangster play a man is murdered and proves to be a shady doctor who had been involved in a scandal with Clara on the Coast and whose life had been threatened by Clint. Things look black for the Jervis clan until Inspector Tope arrives to find the link between the murder and the missing trust director. A tense, absorbing novel.