Download The Dangerous Ladies Affair: A Carpenter and Quincannon Mystery, Book 5 AudioBook Free
For the company of Carpenter and Quincannon, Professional Detective Services, stopping extortionists is not only grand, but excitingly profitable. When a pleasurable afternoon's bicycling through Golden Gate Park with a pal ends with the revelation of intimidating letters, accompanied by a gunshot in a mansion garden, Sabina Carpenter knows this is an instance that calls for her immediate and undivided attention. The questions her spouse John Quincannon has to unravel are not difficult: Wrixton, a prosperous banker, has fulfilled his extortionist's first demand, but the order to pay another $5,000 is a great deal to face. The banker's real problem is something he doesn't want to uncover. That was fine with the detective, so when he was enlightened that some private words were engaged and Wrixton absolutely needed them back again, there was little or nothing more Quincannon needed in the way of background. As with so many of San Francisco's top notch, the bedroom doors never appeared to stay shut. That was the simple part. A lot more difficult was the problem of the dead courier, murdered most foully in a locked room inside a locked room, building a trail that will need John Quincannon through most of San Francisco's less savory places and end with a riverboat trip that is anything but a relaxing luxury cruise. The Dangerous Ladies Affair is the next thrilling installment in this enchanting historical unknown series from MWA Grand Masters Marcia Muller and Expenses Pronzini.
