Marian J. A. Jackson

The Arabian Pearl: a Miss Danforth Mystery (Miss Danforth Mysteries) Marian J. A. Jackson

Fresh from her heady success at retrieving the Punjats ruby for the Prince of Wales, Miss Abigail Patience Danforth and her entourage are speeding toward San Francisco in a private railroad car when their journey is interrupted by train robbers. They murder her new friend, and steal her beloved horse, Crosspatches, along with Marshal Bill Tilghmans foundation sirean Arabian, priceless as a monarchs pearl. Far from the familiar boulevards of London and New York where she had schooled herself in the infant science of detection, Miss Danforth disdains the famous lawmans old-fashioned, slow methods of tracking fugitives across the vast wilderness that was then the Oklahoma Territory and creates her own her only clue, the killers love of chocolate.