At a shooting weekend in the West Riding, a guest goes missing. At night, his best friend goes out to look for him.

An occasional series of stories from life’s murkier places, featuring a selection of mysteries from America.

Writer Gertrude Atherton was born in 1857 in San Francisco. Her bestseller Black Oxen was made into a silent movie of the same name. She died in 1948.

Read by Samuel West.

Producer: Jeremy Osborne

Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by Sweet Talk productions and first broadcast in November 2018. Show less