The Necklace Affair and Other Stories (Captain Lacey Regency Mysteries)

This anthology brings together three short mysteries in the Captain Lacey series: The Necklace Affair (novella); and The Gentlemans Walking Stick and The Disappearance of Miss Sarah Oswald (short stories).In The Necklace Affair Captain Lacey agrees to help a society matron discover what has become of her expensive diamond necklace and to clear her maid who has been arrested for its theft. Lady Clifford declares that the rival for her husbands affections has stolen the necklace but Lacey soon realizes that the problem is not so simple. He quickly becomes enmeshed in scandal and past secrets and recruits Grenville and Lady Breckenridge to assist him. As he investigates he finds himself competing with the underworld criminal James Denis for the necklaces retrieval.In The Gentlemans Walking Stick Captain Lacey is asked to retrieve a walking stick which embroils him in an affair of theft deception and betrayal.In The Disappearance of Miss Sarah Oswald Lacey hunts for a missing young woman learning more about a familys sordid secrets than he wanted to know.