Number Seventeen

"Number Seventeen" by Louis Tracy is a mystery novel where an artist named Francis Berrold Theydon gets more than he bargained for one rainy night. After leaving the theater, he sees a pretty woman and her father. He thinks nothing of it until he comes across a murder that rocks his neighborhood. When his neighbor is found dead, the encounter plays over and over in his mind. Theydon starts to wonder who the attractive woman and her father were and what they had to do with it. The story kicks off with Theydon struggling over what to do, as there is tension building between what he observed and what he should tell the police, setting the stage for a suspenseful investigation where secrets and danger lurk around every corner.