Distaff disturbances when Theodora Miles, of the Informer's Woman's Page, is center-spot for a murder investigation. Surrounded by the woman who staff the page, heart-troubled by her love for Colin, who is haunted by his first wife, Theodora is besettingly inquisitive, obstructs Superintendent Boldweather, is a frightened hare when another killing and a clue from Colin lands her in the danger zone. Fleet Street in petticoats.