"Sally Stokes is what you might call a working girl, and to keep the work from getting boring, she's created a little game, stealing a handkerchief from every gentleman who rents her favors. It's nothing more than an amusement until one of her handkerchiefs proves to contain a note, written by a desperate woman who is, apparently, being held against her will. From which client's pocket did Sally pluck the fateful rag? Sally's easily bright enough...

Fans of Regency-era romances will love this series, featuring the dashing Julian Kestrel. But it will also be catnip for devotees of classic gentlemen-sleuth mysteries, like those by Dorothy Sayers: with his quips, his impeccable tailoring and his knack for solving "problems" that baffle the police, Kestrel is the spiritual godfather to Lord Peter Wimsey