The Puritan

From the inside front cover: ""Perhaps one of the readers of your valuable newspaper can tell me the present whereabouts of a Miss Margaret Lawson who, I believe, is still living in your city..."

"Such inquiries at the Evening Telegram were usually sent straight to the 'City Postbag' column. But Paul Garran had not forgotten the scandal six years before. Nor had Andrew Field, his editor.

"They managed to find Margaret at a Beauty Contest being run by the paper itself; but they were less successful when, for her sake, they tried to keep the story quiet. For the writer of the letter was Sir Wilfrid hailes, the eminent and controversial surgeon."