Shadowed

This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design. Shadowed by a Detective plunges into the glittering, dangerous world of Ada Ricard, a beautiful society woman whose wealth, charm, and violent past make her the center of scandal and suspicion. At a lavish masked ball, her carefully staged glamour collapses into terror when three mysterious "Sioux Indians" carry her off in a brazen abduction that is mistaken for a joke until it is too late. What follows is a fast-moving tale of hidden identities, jealousy, revenge, and secret motives, shifting from high-society spectacle to a darker underworld of kidnapping, obsession, and betrayal. As the mystery deepens, Colonel Edward Forster's passion-driven plot is revealed, while the story broadens into courtroom drama with Mr. Macready's fierce defense of James Gobson, a man condemned despite glaring doubts about the evidence. The novel combines melodrama and detective fiction with legal suspense, emotional entanglements, and a bleak sense of injustice. Part of a popular line of affordable crime fiction, it delivers brisk plotting, sensational intrigue, and the kind of hard-driving mystery readers crave.