The Lion’s Mouse

A hard-driving corporation lawyer named Roger Sands shares a train stateroom with a frightened young woman on the Santa Fé Limited, shields her from a man she is fleeing, and within days marries her. The bride, Beverley, is carrying a secret: a sealed envelope she was charged to deliver. When she finally opens it, the documents inside have been swapped for blank paper and the originals are gone. With a deadline closing in and the truth kept from her new husband, she turns to Clo Riley, a young shopgirl she has rescued from despair, and the two set out to recover the papers before a congressman can put them to his own use. The popular husband-and-wife team behind the era’s motoring romances blends drawing-room intrigue with a light, quick mystery.