The beautiful widow Corinne DeCoventry's young friend Susan Enderton disappears from her estate. The Marquess of Luten feels responsible for her kidnapping (if it was a kidnapping) and the Berkeley Brigade follows him to the country to solve this distressing puzzle. There are mysteries aplenty-a masked highwayman, a surprisingly rundown estate, an assemblage of suspects-and murder. 2nd of the Berkeley Brigade mysteries Regency Mystery/Romance by Joan Smith; originally published by Fawcett