Eavesdropping: The Nursemaid who Disappeared by Philip MacDonald (1938)

Tom Sheldon Garrett, American playwright, finds himself in a teashop, eavesdropping on a conversation happening in the next booth b/w two women, one who has a masculine timber to her voice while the other has a gentle, tremulous one. Through the conversation Garrett is able to make out that they are discussing the kidnapping of …