From the Car Behind

  "With a cautious glance at her keepers, she took up the book as if to read, and opening it at the flyleaf began to write surreptitiously much the same message that had been on her last postal, signing her name and home address and giving her employers' address." Shirley flings the book into a passing car and the scheme works—the book is turned over to the police and they contact Shirley's family. But, how do we know that this is the red book Shirley tossed? In the next chapter, Shirley's sister Carol is describing her outfit and what she had with her that day. "Oh, yes!" she added, "And she had a book to read! One she found here in the cottage. It...