Daredevil

This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design. Widowed and nearly penniless, Susan Hawthorne accepts help from Lord Hannassay, the formidable statesman whose dry wit and unexpected kindness give her a precarious new start. In his house she learns secretarial work and, almost at once, is swept back into the orbit of Christopher Arden—Storm—whose reckless charm, adventurous past, and unspoken bond with Susan bring warmth to a world already shadowed by politics and danger. Storm's return is more than personal. He is quietly tracking a troubling pattern of reforming criminals, and a dead French financier found with an Alpha Triangle card launches a far wider investigation. Inspector Teal follows the trail through London's underworld, questioning fences, pickpockets, and disgruntled ex-convicts while more coded cards reach a bank manager, a Cabinet minister, and a newspaper editor. As old scandals, ruined lives, and buried grievances surface, the Triangle appears to connect power, crime, and hidden loyalties. When a burglary, a forged deed of sale, and a suspicious signature point toward disguise and fraud, Teal and Storm realize they are facing a conspiracy that reaches from the safecracker's trade to the highest circles of public life.