"Iris Carr is travelling across Europe by train when she unwittingly becomes embroiled in a sinister Balkan plot. Feeling disoriented after a fall, Iris is befriended by Miss Froy, an elderly English woman sharing her carriage. But when she wakes up from a few hours' sleep, Miss Froy has vanished without a trace. As fellow passengers claim the lady never existed, Iris faces danger and intrigue as she fights to discover the fate of Miss Froy-- and...

"This book takes the reader on a fact-packed journey through the subject of wheels, from bicycles to driverless cars, via wheeled toys, Ferris wheels, potter’s wheels, and chariots along the way."--Amazon.com.

The lady vanishes (1938): While traveling in continental Europe, a rich young playgirl realizes that an elderly lady seems to have disappeared from the train. I cover the waterfront (1933): An investigative reporter romances a suspected smuggler's daughter. Algiers (1938): Beautiful Gaby meets a romantic jewel thief in the mysterious Casbah. The scarlet letter (1934): In the seventeenth century, in Massachusetts, a young woman is forced to wear...

Two rather young women, Amy and Helen, traveling with an older uncle, are doing the "tour" of Europe, and are supposedly soaking up education but secretly yearning for adventures and romance. At this wish for adventure, a pair of gloves suddenly drops beside them from a balcony above their hotel room near Coblentz. Ah, whose gloves? The two young men who enter the lives of these ladies are rich and eligible adventurers traveling through Europe, and...