The Case of the Nervous Spinsters

Amelia Ecclestone is a Victorian Lady Detective. A wealthy lawyer, who cares for his two spinster sisters, disappears and the sisters pester Inspector Knott of Scotland Yard to search for him. In order to get the spinsters off his hands, he instructs Sergeant Jones to enlist the aid of Miss Ecclestone. Amelia, with the help of her assistant, Jane Wilks and her ex-jail bird 'bodyguard' Jeremiah Ruddock, sets out to find and rescue him. In certain situations, Amelia finds it expedient to adopt male attire to hide her real identity. After many exciting and dangerous adventures she discovers that the lawyer has been kidnapped and the conspiracy behind the kidnapping. Assisted by Jane and Jeremiah she rescues him and brings the culprits to book. Convinced from her investigations that there is a traitor in the War Office, she joins the staff, tracks down the traitor and exposes him.