The Amateur

MP3 Audio CD. Austin Ford, on his way to London, meets a young lady who is going in the same route to find her missing spouse. However, there is a mystery about the lady and her story.

Ford, on a steamer went to England to act as the London correspondent of the New York Republic. For three years of the most popular New York dailies he was the star man, the chief muckraker, the chief sleuth. He was interested in crimes against law and society. He is a detective and he does not like to be called an amateur sleuth.

He sat down drinking hot gin with Doctor Sparrow, the ship?s doctor and the young lady with them who keeps on turning over her new wedding ring as if she was not used to it. Doctor Sparrow told Ford that maybe he could help the young lady to find her husband. She thinks that he has been killed or he is ill and lying in a hospital. She, herself, is sickly. She has a child and left him at home, she?s worried that something might happen to him.

The woman handed him photos of her husband. Ford said he will help her find him, he will search in hotels and other places in London. He told her that his husband might look different and might have change his name. He thought, how could his husband leave this pretty, young wife and their baby. This man is irresponsible or something else came up and he must attend to it without notice.

The ship?s doctor told Fold about the lady?s story that she does not care about the baby but crosses the ocean to find her husband because she is in love with him.

Will the amateur sleuth solve the case? Knowing that the young lady?s husband has deserted her and their baby and has no plans of returning home.