A mysterious thief leaves a card with four squares and a J, so the papers call her Four Square Jane. Peter Dawes is the Scotland Yard inspector trying to track her down. Lord Claythorpe is at the center of all her work. He's in charge of Miss Joyce Wilberforce' s finances, although not related in any way, and wanted to marry her to his son Francis, but Joyce is in love with Jamieson Steele, an engineer with no title or fortune, but equally in love with her. I like how this Jane is very intelligent and daring, but in her own way kind of honest. Her real identity is not too difficult to guess, because as soon as you see how she targets Claythorpe in particular you focus your attention on that and realize how his disastrous financial situation might have brought him to abuse of his position to get hold of Joyce's money. When his secretary is killed, it's very clear that she's not the one responsible, and that he's a much more likely suspect. When arrested, he confesses both to the murder and the theft before killing himself, so now Peter is sure and prepares to arrest Joyce and her now husband Steele, but they manage to escape, but only after stopping at Claythorpe's house to get her money back. Sure it seems pretty strange that Claythorpe acquaintances who had been victim of the thief and had saw her, would not recognize in her Joyce , and still it's possible..
At first she seemed a female Robin Hood, with all her donations to hospitals and other charity establishments , but Joyce cared about getting back what was rightly hers, keeping the cash to herself and sending the jewels to charity, instead of going through the trouble of selling them.
Joyce's mother of course was the classic silly woman who believed in Lord Claythorpe and wanted her daughter to marry Francis, not caring about her feelings at all, but Joyce was very intelligent and decent :-)
Ita: L' inafferrabile
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