Not bad, 58 pages in my book, pretty simple story but pleasant to read. Set in Rome, it's the story of an American painter, Robert Miller, who finds himself involved in a murder case. He meets young American Emily Layden and takes her to meet famous director Andy Prussing. They know each other and he leaves them alone but when he comes back Andy's dead, murdered. He finds there Gabriella Celano, an Italian princess (oh my) but he believes her innocence and explanation and lets her go with a scarlet box containing her love letters to Andy. Robert doesn't tell the Italian police of either Gabriella or Emily, but eventually Emily's name comes out and Robert is determined to save her because he's in love with her already. He speaks to Gabriella's father, to her fiancée, to Betsy the famous actress who had a relationship with Andy, and with Kate, Andy's secretary. Thanks to a secret compartment in the box he finds out Andy was blackmailing Betsy, but when he finds Andy's letter to her hidden in his painting he discovers that the idea was Kate's, and she killed him because he was now in love with Betsy and wanted to come clean. Robert confronts Kate but she has a gun. Betsy helps him quick, and they stop Kate and call the police. Emily is now free and the two of them are happily in love, in Rome :-) happy ending :-)
See, a simple little story, but it was nice.
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