![]() ![]() The fact of its being Christmas Eve would also of necessity add to the business and consequent distraction of the household. ![]() The time chosen, of course, was the dinner-hour, when the family and guests were at table and the servants not on duty were amusing themselves in their own quarters. The robbery differs in few respects from the usual run of country-house robberies. "I T'S a big thing," said Loveday Brooke, addressing Ebenezer Dyer, chief of the well-known detective agency in Lynch Court, Fleet Street "Lady Cathrow has lost £30,000 worth of jewellery, if the newspaper accounts are to be trusted." These stories were first published in The Ludgate Monthly, London, February-July 1893, with the exception of "Missing", which was first published in book form as part of The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective, London: Hutchinson & Co., 1894. ![]() The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective ![]()
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