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The novel „My Lady’s Money” continues the detective line of Collins’ work: this time it is about investigating the loss of a 500-pound banknote, during the search for which the honest name of poor Isabella, suspected of stealing money, was defamed.

The creek between the canal and the river flows under Lady’s Stairs, a crazy wooden house inhabited by Li Yoseph – known to the police as a smuggler. The neighborhood suspects he is rich, and knows he is mad. Inspector Bradley is out to break a drug-smuggling gang which operates from an old house overhanging the Thames; the gang is headed by a criminal called Mark McGill. The disappearance of young...