When a young woman is framed for shoplifting in a London department store, Miss Silver, who happens to be shopping at the adjacent counter, intervenes. Miss Silver goes on to unravel a blackmail scheme manufactured by the girl's wicked uncle--and then solves his own murder.

Left a book basket at the back of store.

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Good writer, Patricia Wentworth. The book is much better than The New Yorker's faint praise on the cover, "Pleasant.", might suggest.