A broken vessel - Kate Ross

When bold bewitching prostitute Sally Stokes picks up three men, one after the other, she steals a handkerchief from each. she also mistakenly steals a letter. But from which man? Who is the distraught woman who wrote it? And where is she being held against her will? The questions take on a new urgency when Sally finds the letter's writer - dead. And to elegant dandy, Julian Kestrel, it looks like murder. Sally uses all her ingenuity and daring to help Kestrel solve this case. But she is out to solve another mystery as well: is there a man of flesh and blood under Kestrel's impeccable clothes?