It has been some time since lady detective Frances Doughty had had a case. She has been approached by a government agent asking her to do some observations at the Bayswater Bicycle Club annual summer meeting. Certain members of the club are suspected of being spies.
She calls together her team to support her; Sarah, who at one time had been her maid, and her boyfriend, Mr. Pounder, Cedric Garton and the two entrepreneurial boys, Tom and Ratty. But first Frances wants to learn to ride a bicycle, and to do this she has to go in disguise as a lad. Having learned how to ride, Frances wants to check out the nearby site where a cyclist had been murdered. She and Cedric discover that he was likely riding too fast at the time of his death. But why was he riding too fast?
The day of the meeting and the host, Sir Hugo Daffin is missing. Frances and her friend Cedric go in search of him. They find the man she was supposed to meet tied up in a small cottage. After releasing him, the three continue the search. They find him in his room in a deep sleep. It would appear that he has been drugged.
Why would anyone want to kill the innocent daughter of the local blacksmith? Frances had found her body during the meeting. Had she seen something that she shouldn’t have? The police hold everyone at the meeting so that they can be questioned.
Will the police be able to find the killer? Or will the sharp mind of Miss Frances Doughty put together the puzzles and find the solutions or can they work together? Author Linda Stratmann’s murder mystery is as fast paced as a bicycle race. A good quick read with some surprises.
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