When Charlotte Pitt was asked for help by her mother, whose medallion had gone missing, the police inspector’s wife did not attach much importance to this event. Well, he disappeared, and disappeared... In many, even the most decent houses, servants are dishonest. But when Charlotte learned that various trinkets also began to disappear from other mansions on Rutland Place, where her mother lives, she became thoughtful. Well, when she learned that her mother’s missing medallion contained a photograph of a man well known to Charlotte - and this was by no means her father... Was there really a blackmailer in Rutland Place? The young woman began an investigation. And almost immediately she was faced with the mysterious murder of one of the local ladies, which someone carefully tried to disguise as suicide. It was known about the deceased that she knew everything about everyone. Did the unknown thief, trying to keep his secret, move from theft to murder?..