Four square Jane

Jewels and social ambition make Joe Lewinstein's country house party an inviting target for a thief. He hopes his lavish hospitality will strengthen useful connections, while his wife worries about Four Square Jane. This elusive criminal leaves a printed label with four squares and the letter J. Lewinstein seeks help from a London detective agency. Caroline Smith arrives carrying its card and meets him in the library.

Edgar Wallace gives this English mystery a setting where wealth and respectability invite close scrutiny. Lord Claythorpe plans to move valuable bonds from a bank, despite his assistant Remington's doubts. Their conversation brings together an approaching wedding, unpaid money and a dispute over the worth of a pearl necklace. Sharp exchanges make financial arrangements feel increasingly uncertain. Readers drawn to society mysteries will find both the puzzle of Jane's identity and the tensions surrounding people who have expensive possessions to protect.