<h2>Her fortune was the price on her head</h2><p>Burt Keating had been trying to make the acquaintance of his pretty red-headed neighbor but he wasn't getting very far - until the day she escaped from a strange roadside encounter. For when it turned out that murder had resulted from the affair she threw herself hysterically into Burt's arms pleading for his help.It seems she had inherited a sealed box whose contents were entirely unknown. Certain parties wanted that box badly. They had offered her a fortune - or sudden death.</p><p>Burt knew then that chivalry can go too far for there was no longer any way out once he'd tangled with the quaking widow.</p>