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Miss Maitland, Private Secretary, Classics To Go

The Janney family is a wealthy one - the older couple are discreet and polite. Their daughter is arrogant and shallow. The daughter's marriage has broken up and it is an unpleasant scene when Chapman Price leaves. The story builds up with threatening letters, and then a robbery - a big one which for various reasons are kept quiet. The detective work continues and unknown to each other three sets of detectives are working the case. The kidnap and ransom of Bebita the little girl who is the grand daughter of the Janneys however is not something that can be kept quiet despite the Janneys wanting it to be so. This is where our Miss Maitland gets dragged in unwittingly and unwillingly. Faced with charges of kidnap and ransom she is not willing to defend herself and the story slowly unravels as to why she takes this stance. (Goodreads)

Geraldine Bonner

Geraldine Bonner (pen name, Hard Pan; 1870–1930) was an American author. Geraldine Bonner was born on Staten Island, New York. Her father, John Bonner, was a journalist and historical writer. As a child, the family moved to Colorado and she lived in mining camps. After moving to San Francisco, California, she worked at a newspaper, the Argonaut, in 1887, and subsequently, she wrote the novel Hard Pan (1900) and used the name "Hard Pan" as a pseudonym. Bonner also wrote short stories which were published in Collier's Weekly, Harper's Weekly, Harper's Monthly, and Lippincott's.

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