Four Square Jane

This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design. Four Square Jane is a stylish crime mystery built around one of Edgar Wallace's most elusive and elegant thieves: a brilliant woman who outwits police, detectives, and society itself with nerve and precision. From glittering country-house parties to a struggling hospital on the edge of collapse, the novel blends suspense, social satire, and delayed revelation into a fast-moving puzzle of theft, disguise, and double dealing. At Adchester Manor House, wealthy financier Joe Lewinstein hosts an extravagant gathering where jewels, vanity, and secrecy create the perfect cover for crime. He hires a female detective, Miss Caroline Smith, to guard against the notorious Four Square Jane, but the evening quickly turns sinister when she falls ill after tea and a suspicious doctor declares scarlet fever. While the household is distracted, a shadowy intruder steals jewels room by room, leaving Jane's signature behind. Elsewhere, a stolen Venetian armlet, a ruined wedding, and a trail of missing valuables draw Detective Peter Dawes into a case that exposes family greed, financial desperation, and the dangerous charm of Four Square Jane.