Into the Valley of Death

On Friday next, pub owner Jack Steadman would hang for the murder of Alfie Goode, drunkard and ne''er-do-well. The case was open-and-shut to everyone but Miss Harriet Unwin, who had less than a week to prove that Jack, a Crimean war hero, was innocent. Her snooping soon took her to the ballroom of a retired general''s stately manor. But there, between the quadrilles and waltzes, Miss Unwin had to ...