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A stranger steps into a lawyer’s train compartment, asking him to protect her without knowing her secret.
Roger Sands is heading back to New York aboard the Santa Fe Limited when a frightened young woman interrupts his journey. She calls herself Beverley White, admits the surname is false, and begs him to hide her until Chicago. A man elsewhere on the train terrifies her, but she cannot explain why.
Roger offers her his compartment and invents a family connection to shield her. Then Beverley places an unaddressed envelope with gold seals in his care. He suspects a trick, yet chooses to stand guard. In The Lion’s Mouse, C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson bring romance and mystery together around a dangerous question: how much can a stranger’s trust demand?
What you’ll discover
- A guarded man unsettled Watch Roger’s tough self-image falter as concern for Beverley becomes something warmer.
- A name that conceals Meet a woman who asks for protection while withholding even her full identity.
- An envelope worth guarding A sealed packet gives Roger something concrete to protect, but little he can understand.
- Suspense in close quarters A closed compartment and a watchful night turn a railway journey into uneasy shelter.
- Loyalty under social pressure Enter a world where reputation matters and friendship can be useful as well as sincere.
Who will love it
Readers who like romantic suspense with a fast plot, a mystery about a hidden past, daring escapes by a clever young heroine, and the glitter of old New York society.
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The key ideas, in the 15-minute summary
- A stranger enters the stateroom
- Roger marries a woman without a past
- A mouse falls from a window
- The man who waited in Chicago
- The pearls, the quarrel, and the plan
- A faint, a safe, and a stone ledge
- Everything vanishes
- The dead man, the telephone, and Kit
- The hidden listener
- What the story is about and how it is told
Who’s who
- Roger SandsA proud corporation lawyer who marries a stranger on faith and struggles to keep trusting her when the evidence looks dark.
- Beverley SandsThe beautiful young wife who carries a secret she has sworn not to tell, to save a life that is not her own.
- Clo RileyA thin, quick Irish orphan, saved by Beverley, who vows to repay her and does so with wit and nerve.
- Justin O'ReillyA young congressman and old rival of Roger, who holds papers he believes belong to a friend and wants an old family house.
- PetersonA ferret-faced, lame man with thief's fingers who demands sealed papers from Beverley and sets a deadline.
- Ellen BlackburneA discreet pearl stringer from Yonkers who loves her mother and likes to gather notes on the lives of her clients.
- John HeronThe wealthy Californian whom Roger once defended, and whose papers lie at the heart of the trouble.
- KitA hard, gaudy young woman who watches Peterson for a gang and has her own plans for a fortune.
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Il topo del leone
by C. N. Williamson; A. M. Williamson · 1919
A stranger begs lawyer Roger Sands to hide her on a train, and an envelope with three gold seals changes his life.
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The Lion's Mouse is a romantic mystery by C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson, a husband and wife who wrote many popular novels together. It is set in New York and Newport in the years before the First World War, and it moves quickly from a train, to a department store, to a shabby hotel, to a seaside ball.
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A stranger enters the stateroom
Roger Sands has steel gray eyes, a hard chin, and a name for being tough as nails. He is racing home to New York on the Santa Fe Limited after a long legal fight in California. On a hot September day he leaves his stateroom door open, and a lovely young woman steps in and shuts it behind her.
She says a man on the train is a danger to her life, and she asks to be kept in the stateroom all the way to Chicago. Roger agrees, though he half suspects a trick. He tells the conductor she is his cousin and takes a section nearby so that he can stand guard through the night.
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What is The Lion's Mouse about?
A lawyer marries a mysterious woman he met on a train. Soon a young Irish girl he has taken in tries to retrieve stolen papers and pearls, and uncovers a deadly plot against his wife.
Who are Clo Riley and Beverley Sands?
Beverley is Roger Sands's beautiful, secretive wife. Clo is the young Irish orphan she rescues on a New York street, who then risks everything to repay her kindness.
What does the title The Lion's Mouse mean?
It refers to the fable of a mouse that frees a lion by gnawing through a net. Clo uses it to promise she will one day help her rescuer.
The author
C. N. Williamson
1857–1920 · British novelist and motoring journalist
British writer and motoring journalist, novelist frequently as duo with wife A. M. Williamson.
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